Surname Miše in modern Croatia

Miše families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Ciovo (Okrug Gornji). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Trogir and Split. In Okrug Gornji on the Island of Ciovo every sixth inhabitant had the family name Miše.

Prevalence

About 500 people with faimily name Miše live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 90 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Trogir (150), Okrug Gornji on the Island of Ciovo (140), Split (85), Zagreb (55), and in Arbanija (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Miše (including: Mise , Misse , Missie , Mische , Miesse , Mishe , Miese , Misze , Misee and Mieshe ) is present in 90 countries worldwide. The family name "Mise " is used by some 3000 people in Kenya , about 1000 in Turkey , and some 800 people in the United States. "Mishe " is used by few people in the United States. "Mische " is used by some 400 people in Germany , about 400 in the United States , and small number of people in Thailand.

Characteristic first names

Sandro Miše, Ante Miše, Kornelija Miše, Branko Miše, Stjepan Miše, Ivana Miše, Miroslav Miše, Leonardo Miše, Vinko Miše, Ivo Miše, Dubravka Miše, Nela Miše, Maja Miše, Silvana Miše, Dinko Miše, Anita Miše, Petra Miše, Marjan Miše, Željko Miše

Mentions in sources

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

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