Surname Gospić in modern Croatia

Gospić families are Croats and they are mostly from Biograd na Moru area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and Novigrad. In Prkos in Biograd na moru area every second inhabitant had the family name Gospić.

Prevalence

About 370 people with faimily name Gospić live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than tripled.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 14 other places, mostly in Zadar (120), Prkos in Biograd na moru area (75), Pridraga in Novigrad Area in Dalmatia (70), Zagreb (35), and in Podgradina in Zadar area (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 14 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (7), Australia (3), Germany (2), and to Canada (2).
Family name Gospić (including: Gospic , Gospich ) is present in 15 countries on three continents. "Gospich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marin Gospić, Ivan Gospić, Snježana Gospić, Martino Gospić, Milivoj Gospić, Martin Gospić, Damir Gospić, Ante Gospić, Neven Gospić, Marija Gospić, Slavko Gospić, Gordana Gospić, Daniel Gospić, Žarko Gospić, Norina Gospić, Anamarija Gospić, Mile Gospić, Josip Gospić, Hrvoje Gospić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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