Surname Gusić in modern Croatia

Gusić families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area. According to some sources they are from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj area and in Sinj. In places Grab and Krivodol in Sinj area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Gusić.

Prevalence

About 560 people with faimily name Gusić live in Croatia today, in 200 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than tripled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Grab in Sinj area (140), Zagreb (70), Sinj (45), Velika Gorica (40), and in Split (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 18 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (12), Germany (2), Switzerland (2), Argentina (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Gusić (including: Gusic , Gusich , 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

Nadomir Gusić, Sanja Gusić, Rade Gusić, Ivica Gusić, Ivan Gusić, Stjepan Gusić, Jurica Gusić, Marija Gusić, Luka Gusić, Vesna Gusić, Katica Gusić, Ivka Gusić, Milenko Gusić, Hrvoje Gusić, Anđelko Gusić, Velimir Gusić, Ante Gusić, Goran Gusić, Divna Gusić

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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