Surname Mužević in modern Croatia

Mužević families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanic-Grad area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb. In Donja Obreška in Ivanic-Grad area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Mužević.

Prevalence

About 260 people with faimily name Mužević live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 290 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 24 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Vrbovsko (30), Rijeka (20), Crikvenica (20), and in Dramalj (15).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), Bolivia (1), Australia (1), Germany (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Mužević (including: Muzevic , Muzevich and Muzhevich ) is present in 15 countries worldwide. "Muzevich " is used by small number of people in Argentina and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dario Mužević, Krunoslav Mužević, Željko Mužević, Michela Mužević, Žarko Mužević, Miljen Mužević, Igor Mužević, Ljerka Mužević, Mihael Mužević, Valentina Mužević, Zdenko Mužević, Ivan Mužević, Jasminka Mužević, Goran Mužević, Marijo Mužević, Anton Mužević, Zlatko Mužević, Dominik Mužević, Marina Mužević

Mentions in sources

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

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