Surname Guć in modern Croatia

Guć families are Croats and they are mostly from Makarska area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Makarska area and in Split. In Biokovsko Selo in Makarska area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Guć.

Prevalence

About 160 people with faimily name Guć live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 8 other places, mostly in Split (125), Makarska (10), Podstrana in Solin area (<10), Orebic on the Peljesac peninsula (<10), and in Zagreb (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Guć (including: Guchu , Gutsch , Guch , Guci , Guck , Guc , Gucz , Guech , Guzz and Guec ) is present in 91 countries worldwide. The family name "Guc " is used by some 300 people in Poland , about 80 in the United States , and small number of people in France. "Gutsch " is used by some 1000 people in Germany , about 300 in the United States , and some 60 people in Austria. "Guzz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Stjepan Guć, Miro Guć, Dubravka Guć, Ante Guć, Ivica Guć, Zdenka Guć, Mirjana Guć, Ana Guć, Stipan Guć, Ilda Guć, Marijan Guć, Danijela Guć, Alen Guć, Dinko Guć, Snježana Guć, Željana Guć, Gabrijela Guć, Vladimir Guć, Marina Guć

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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