Surname Gučić in modern Croatia

Gučić families are Croats and they are mostly from Velika Gorica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Velika Gorica and Pleternica. In Bzenica in Pleternica every fifth inhabitant had the family name Gučić.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Gučić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Poljana Cicka (10), Novo Cice (10), Bzenica (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Mali Ston on the Peljesac peninsula (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gučić (including: Gucic , Gutschi , Gutschick , Gutschmid , Gucich , Gutschmit , Gutschy and Gutschik ) is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Gucic " is used by small number of people in Australia and small number in the United States. "Gucich " is used by few people in the United States. "Gutschick " is used by some 90 people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Peru.

Characteristic first names

Danica Gučić, Stjepan Gučić, Ivan Gučić, Đina Gučić, Jasminka Gučić, Dražen Gučić, Damir Gučić, Vedran Gučić, Štefica Gučić, Ivica Gučić, Julija Gučić, Katarina Gučić, Ivo Gučić, Boženka Gučić, Mato Gučić, Darinko Gučić, Ivana Gučić, Ana Gučić, Franjo Gučić

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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