Surname Nižetić in modern Croatia

Nižetić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Brac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Brac and in Split.

Prevalence

About 260 people with faimily name Nižetić live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Selca on the Island of Brac (85), Split (50), Pucisca on the Island of Brac (40), Zagreb (30), and in Makarska (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Nižetić (including: Nizetic , Nizetich ) is present in 10 countries on four continents. The family name "Nizetic " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in Argentina , and small number of people in the United States. "Nizetich " is used by some 200 people in Argentina , about 80 in South Africa , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Đuro Nižetić, Branko Nižetić, Radmila Nižetić, Petar Nižetić, Zdravko Nižetić, Marijo Nižetić, Veljko Nižetić, Luka Nižetić, Ivana Nižetić, Niki Nižetić, Josip Nižetić, Dean Nižetić, Tomislav Nižetić, Sandro Nižetić, Slaven Nižetić, Srđan Nižetić, Andro Nižetić, Ivica Nižetić, Joško Nižetić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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