Surname Nežić in modern Croatia

Nežić families are Croats and they are mostly from Buzet. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Buzet. In Gornja Nugla in Buzet every fourth inhabitant had the family name Nežić.

Prevalence

About 400 people with faimily name Nežić live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 470 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 23 cities and 40 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Buzet (50), Rijeka (35), Jastrebarsko (25), and in Pula (20).

Outside Croatia

At least ten families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (3), the United States (3), Germany (2), Canada (1), and to France (1).
Family name Nežić (including: Nezic , Nezich , Nezick and Nezhich ) is present in 9 countries on four continents. The family name "Nezic " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Nezich " is used by some 80 people in the United States. "Nezick " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ljerka Nežić, Robert Nežić, Damir Nežić, Tomica Nežić, Valter Nežić, Marin Nežić, Zvjezdan Nežić, Miljenko Nežić, Nikica Nežić, Dijego Nežić, Marinko Nežić, Sandra Nežić, Zlatko Nežić, Edo Nežić, Mirjana Nežić, Denis Nežić, Vanja Nežić, Marija Nežić, Dajna Nežić

Mentions in sources

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

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