Gugić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Korcula. According to some sources they are from Rama (north Herzegovina). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj and Split.
Prevalence
About 580 people with faimily name Gugić live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 320 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 80 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 32 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Split (90), Vela Luka on the Island of Korcula (90), Sinj (65), and in Radosic (60).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1710 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.