Surname Guštin in modern Croatia

Guštin families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Ozalj. According to some sources they are from Gustin near Pazin (Istria), rarely Slovenes. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ozalj and Karlovac. In Vrškovac in Ozalj every third inhabitant had the family name Guštin.

Prevalence

About 310 people with faimily name Guštin live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 29 other places, mostly in Vivodina (50), Zagreb (50), Pazin (30), Pula (15), and in Karlovac (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 19 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (6), the United States (5), Australia (3), Sweden (3), Canada (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Guštin (including: Gustin , Gushtyn , Gustien , Gustyn , Gushtin and Gusztyn ) is present in 58 countries worldwide. The family name "Gustin " is used by some 9000 people in the United States , about 2000 in France , and some 2000 people in Indonesia. "Gusztyn " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Alemka Guštin, Željko Guštin, Boris Guštin, Davorka Guštin, Dražen Guštin, Siniša Guštin, Denis Guštin, Mladen Guštin, Dijana Guštin, Milica Guštin, Romeo Guštin, Zlatko Guštin, Veljko Guštin, Bojan Guštin, Serđan Guštin, Duško Guštin, Damir Guštin, Marijan Guštin, Aldo Guštin

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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