Surname Pestić in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Pestić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located and two other Croatian places, mostly in Zadar (85), Lukoran on the Island of Ugljan (10), Zagreb (<10), Split (<10), and in Petrcane (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (8) and Australia (1).
Family name Pestić (including: Pestich , Pestic , Pesticci , Peshtich , Pestick , Pestych and Pestichev ) is present in 12 countries worldwide. The family name "Pestic " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Pestich " is used by some 100 people in Russian Federation , about 60 in Ukraine , and small number of people in the United States. "Pestick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Krsto Pestić, Šime Pestić, Monika Pestić, Marin Pestić, Nediljka Pestić, Adam Pestić, Ivana Pestić, Antonija Pestić, Gabriela Pestić, Nadija Pestić, Ines Pestić, Dragan Pestić, Natalija Pestić, Dalija Pestić, Petra Pestić, Darko Pestić, Nada Pestić, Valter Pestić, Marinko Pestić

Mentions in sources

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

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