Surname Ostoić in modern Croatia

Ostoić families are often Croats and they are mostly from Osijek , less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and Zagreb. In Ribnjak in Koprivnica area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Ostoić.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Ostoić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Osijek (15), Split (10), Varazdin (10), and in Oriovac in Pleternica area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (1) and Germany (1).
Family name Ostoić (including: Ostoic , Ostoich and Ostoici ) is present in 19 countries on four continents. "Ostoich " is used by some 600 people in Argentina , about 200 in the United States , and some 80 people in Venezuela.

Characteristic first names

Velimir Ostoić, Tomislav Ostoić, Ivana Ostoić, Sunčica Ostoić, Duje Ostoić, Katarina Ostoić, Ana Ostoić, Boris Ostoić, Siniša Ostoić, Živorad Ostoić, Branko Ostoić, Jelena Ostoić, Nikola Ostoić, Mijo Ostoić, Milutin Ostoić, Darijo Ostoić, Dubravko Ostoić, Juraj Ostoić, Niko Ostoić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.

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