Surname Gerić in modern Croatia

Gerić families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Zagreb. In Gornja Poljana in Varazdinske Toplice every eighth inhabitant had the family name Gerić.

Prevalence

About 470 people with faimily name Gerić live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 420 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 38 cities and 54 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Karlovac (35), Ludbreg (30), Varazdinske Toplice (30), and in Novska (20).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), the United States (2), and to Austria (1).
Family name Gerić (including: Gerich , Geric , Gerrick , Gerick , Gehrich , Gerics , Gerichs , Gerrich , Gheric and Geritsch ) is present in 42 countries worldwide. The family name "Geric " is used by some 200 people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Slovakia. "Gerich " is used by some 1000 people in Ukraine , about 600 in Germany , and some 400 people in the United States. "Geritsch " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Božidar Gerić, Sandro Gerić, Goran Gerić, Tomislav Gerić, Snježana Gerić, Zvonko Gerić, Božena Gerić, Boris Gerić, Dubravka Gerić, Jadranka Gerić, Ivica Gerić, Nenad Gerić, Kornelija Gerić, Zdravko Gerić, Angelina Gerić, Antun Gerić, Jasenka Gerić, Dijana Gerić, Davor Gerić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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