Surname Gušić in modern Croatia

Gušić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Pozega area , also Bosniaks (from Banja Luka area, Bosnia) and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Banja Luka Region, Bosnia (Banja Luka area) and in Pozega area. In Kraljevići in Podrinje (Bosnia) every fourth inhabitant had the family name Gušić.

Prevalence

About 160 people with faimily name Gušić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 26 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Rijeka (15), Dragovci in Pozega area (10), Vojnic in Duga Resa area (<10), and in Topusko in Glina area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Gušić (including: Gusic , Gusich , Guscic , Gusick , Gussick , Gusitsch , Guszick and Gussich ) is present in 18 countries worldwide. The family name "Gusic " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 200 in Argentina , and some 200 people in Sweden. "Gusich " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Indonesia , and small number of people in Russian Federation. "Gusitsch " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Gušić, Edina Gušić, Osman Gušić, Lejla Gušić, Dušanka Gušić, Ivana Gušić, Kristina Gušić, Milenka Gušić, Goran Gušić, Alma Gušić, Branimir Gušić, Marijana Gušić, Danijel Gušić, Nebojša Gušić, Mile Gušić, Elvis Gušić, Nino Gušić, Hrusto Gušić, Ivanka Gušić

Mentions in sources

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

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