Surname Kočić in modern Croatia

Kočić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Banja Luka area (Bosnia), also Serbs and Bosniaks. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Banja Luka Region, Bosnia (Banja Luka area) and in Bosanian Posavina (Orasje area).

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Kočić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Ladjevac in Nova Gradiska area (10), Rijeka (<10), Split (<10), Pula (<10), and in Dubrovnik (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kočić (including: Kocich , Kocic , Kotschi , Kochick , Kocass , Kocych , Kocick , Kochich , Kotschnig and Kotschitsch ) is present in 31 countries worldwide. The family name "Kocic " is used by some 90 people in the United States , about 60 in Germany , and small number of people in Austria. "Kocich " is used by some 200 people in Czech Republic and about 100 in the United States. "Kochich " is used by few people in Russian Federation and few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Denis Kočić, Mirsada Kočić, Gojko Kočić, Senad Kočić, Maja Kočić, Dušanka Kočić, Ivan Kočić, Dragica Kočić, Josip Kočić, Milan Kočić, Stojan Kočić, Petar Kočić, Olja Kočić, Tamara Kočić, Sascha Kočić, Adnan Kočić, Nenad Kočić, Suzana Kočić, Kristina Kočić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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