Surname Ožegović in modern Croatia

Ožegović families are often Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof area. According to some sources they are from Sibenik, rarely Serbs and Bosniaks (from Cazinska Krajina Region, Bosnia). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Drnis.

Prevalence

About 350 people with faimily name Ožegović live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 570 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 39 other places, mostly in Zagreb (90), Split (30), Drnis (20), Sisak (20), and in Koprivnica (15).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), the United States (1), and to the Netherlands (1).
Family name Ožegović (including: Ozegovic , Ozegovich ) is present in five countries on three continents. The family name "Ozegovic " is used by some 50 people in the United States. "Ozegovich " is used by some 60 people in the United States and small number in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Julije Ožegović, Mirjana Ožegović, Ljerko Ožegović, Denis Ožegović, Milka Ožegović, Darko Ožegović, Nikola Ožegović, Vedran Ožegović, Borki Ožegović, Željko Ožegović, Nina Ožegović, Milan Ožegović, Dinka Ožegović, Slavko Ožegović, Dražen Ožegović, Zdravko Ožegović, Tomislav Ožegović, Miro Ožegović, Saša Ožegović

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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