Jažić families are Croats and they are mostly from Imotsko. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotsko and Osijek. In Glavina Gornja in Imotsko every eighth inhabitant had the family name Jažić.
Prevalence
About 170 people with faimily name Jažić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Glavina Donja (55), Glavina Gornja (50), Osijek (25), Zagreb (20), and in Zapresic (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.