Surname Potočić in modern Croatia

Potočić families are Croats and they are mostly from Cazma area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Cazma area.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Potočić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Vrbovec (10), Gradec in Vrbovec area (<10), Farkasevac in Cazma area (<10), and in Pisarovina in Jastrebarsko area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to France (1) and the United States (1).
Family name Potočić (including: Potocic , Pototschnik , Pototschnig , Potochick , Potochnick and Potochnic ) is present in 13 countries on three continents. The family name "Potocic " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Canada. "Potochick " is used by some 60 people in the United States. "Potochnick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Lidija Potočić, Nenad Potočić, Marko Potočić, Vjeran Potočić, Marijan Potočić, Hrvoje Potočić, Tomislav Potočić, Jadranka Potočić, Zvonimir Potočić, Dubravka Potočić, Dejan Potočić, Tihomir Potočić, Krešimir Potočić, Andrea Potočić, Daliborka Potočić, Ljubica Potočić, Ivana Potočić, Marija Potočić, Vlatka Potočić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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