Surname Piršić in modern Croatia

Piršić families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrbovsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Kutina and Zagreb. In Podstena in Delnice area nearly every inhabitant had the family name Piršić.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Piršić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Kutina (20), Delnice (15), Gornje Taboriste (15), and in Rude (10).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), Australia (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Piršić (including: Pirsic , Pirsich and Piersic ) is present in 13 countries on four continents.

Characteristic first names

Vjeran Piršić, Miljenko Piršić, Tonći Piršić, Dragutin Piršić, Anton Piršić, Mirela Piršić, Andrija Piršić, Željka Piršić, Mario Piršić, Jadranka Piršić, Dario Piršić, Kazimir Piršić, Marijan Piršić, Mladen Piršić, Tomislav Piršić, Boris Piršić, Jerko Piršić, Branka Piršić, Ljerka Piršić

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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