Surname Goršić in modern Croatia

Goršić families are Croats and they are mostly from Karlovac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and in Duga Resa area. In Bukovje Netretićko in Duga Resa area every third inhabitant had the family name Goršić.

Prevalence

About 290 people with faimily name Goršić live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Karlovac (205), Zagreb (25), Duga Resa (10), Mala Gorica (10), and in Sunja in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Goršić (including: Gorsic , Gorsich , Gorsick and Gorshich ) is present in four countries on three continents. The family name "Gorsic " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Gorsich " is used by some 200 people in the United States. "Gorshich " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Irma Goršić, Zlatko Goršić, Spomenka Goršić, Neven Goršić, Mladen Goršić, Sandra Goršić, Ivan Goršić, Hrvoje Goršić, Mirta Goršić, Aida Goršić, Ana Goršić, Jasenko Goršić, Stjepan Goršić, Vladimir Goršić, Lada Goršić, Matija Goršić, Željko Goršić, Kristina Goršić, Tomislav Goršić

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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