Surname Pasarić in modern Croatia

Pasarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada area. According to some sources they are from place Pazaric (Sarajevo, Bosnia). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Pregrada area. In Košnica in Pregrada area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Pasarić.

Prevalence

About 350 people with faimily name Pasarić live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 560 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 23 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Zagreb (130), Zapresic (40), Pcelic in Virovitica area (20), Sibice (15), and in Virovitica (15).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), the United States (1), Austria (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Pasarić (including: Pasaric , Pasaricha and Pasarich ) is present in 10 countries on three continents. The family name "Pasaric " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in the United States , and small number of people in France.

Characteristic first names

Dragutin Pasarić, Iva Pasarić, Silvio Pasarić, Tomislav Pasarić, Zoran Pasarić, Karlo Pasarić, Danijel Pasarić, Andreja Pasarić, Željko Pasarić, Robert Pasarić, Miroslava Pasarić, Igor Pasarić, Saša Pasarić, Branko Pasarić, Rudolf Pasarić, Željka Pasarić, Nevenka Pasarić, Perica Pasarić, Miroslav Pasarić

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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