Surname Kostić in modern Croatia

Kostić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from north Herzegovina , also Serbs, very rarely Montenegrins. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in North Herzegovina (Konjic area) and in Serbia. In places Orlište , Parsovići and Obrenovac in North Herzegovina every second inhabitant had the family name Kostić.

Prevalence

About 650 people with faimily name Kostić live in Croatia today, in 330 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 54 cities and 67 other places, mostly in Zagreb (115), Rijeka (55), Pula (40), Markusica in Vinkovci area (30), and in Split (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 16 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (11), the United Kingdom (1), Switzerland (1), the United States (1), Austria (1), and to France (1).
Family name Kostić (including: Kostic , Kostich , Kostick , Kostichev , Kostichka , Kostichuk , Kostichan , Kostichin , Kostichak and Kostichek ) is present in 61 countries worldwide. The family name "Kostic " is used by some 1000 people in the United States , about 700 in Germany , and some 200 people in Austria. "Kostich " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 100 in Russian Federation , and some 90 people in Ukraine. "Kostick " is used by some 900 people in the United States , about 100 in Canada , and small number of people in Great Britain.

Characteristic first names

Aleksandar Kostić, Rolando Kostić, Mladen Kostić, Davor Kostić, Siniša Kostić, Milorad Kostić, Antun Kostić, Ivan Kostić, Zoran Kostić, Teo Kostić, Branko Kostić, Nenad Kostić, Borislav Kostić, Gordana Kostić, Dimitrie Kostić, Aleksandra Kostić, Roland Kostić, Antonela Kostić, Duško Kostić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over sixty times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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