Surname Kušić in modern Croatia

Kušić families are predominantly Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina , less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Ogulin. In Donje Psarjevo in Sveti Ivan Zelina every second inhabitant had the family name Kušić.

Prevalence

About 640 people with faimily name Kušić live in Croatia today, in 270 households. There were 760 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 71 other places, mostly in Zagreb (125), Donje Psarjevo (80), Hum Bistricki in Zlatar area (45), Rijeka (30), and in Ljubescica in Varazdin area (20).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), Canada (1), Australia (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Kušić (including: Kusic , Kusich , Kusick , Kushnick , Kuscic , Kushlick , Kushmick , Kushich , Kushick and Kussick ) is present in 38 countries worldwide. The family name "Kusic " is used by some 300 people in the United States. "Kusich " is used by some 70 people in the United States and about 70 in Argentina. "Kushich " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Slavica Kušić, Ivica Kušić, Hrvoje Kušić, Valerija Kušić, Milan Kušić, Vjekoslav Kušić, Aleksandra Kušić, Nikica Kušić, Natalija Kušić, Zlatko Kušić, Nada Kušić, Željko Kušić, Bratislav Kušić, Vladimir Kušić, Josip Kušić, Borka Kušić, Jadranka Kušić, Boris Kušić, Ivanka Kušić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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