Surname Plišić in modern Croatia

Plišić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Krk. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and on the Island of Krk. In Županje on the Island of Krk every second inhabitant had the family name Plišić.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Plišić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Rijeka (40), Zagreb (25), Otocac (10), Kraljevica (10), and in Milovcici on the Island of Krk (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 16 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (12), Argentina (1), Austria (1), Australia (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Plišić (including: Plisic , Plisich , Plysich and Plissich ) is present in 12 countries on four continents. The family name "Plisic " is used by some 100 people in South Africa , about 50 in the United States , and small number of people in Canada. "Plisich " is used by small number of people in Uruguay and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivica Plišić, Adriano Plišić, Damir Plišić, Ikica Plišić, Mladen Plišić, Miljenko Plišić, Milva Plišić, Đani Plišić, Denis Plišić, Luka Plišić, Mario Plišić, Vinka Plišić, Jelena Plišić, Anamarija Plišić, Marijan Plišić, Ksenija Plišić, Hrvoje Plišić, Branka Plišić, Mile Plišić

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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