Surname Prižmić in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 350 people with faimily name Prižmić live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 250 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Vela Luka (185) and Blato (55) on the Island of Korcula, Split (55), Zagreb (30), and in Dubrovnik (15).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (3), the United States (1), France (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Prižmić (including: Prizmic , Prizmich ) is present in 13 countries on four continents. "Prizmich " is used by some 50 people in the United States and small number in Argentina.

Characteristic first names

Jurica Prižmić, Renata Prižmić, Igor Prižmić, Jadranka Prižmić, Miljen Prižmić, Darko Prižmić, Katija Prižmić, Ivana Prižmić, Marija Prižmić, Željko Prižmić, Pero Prižmić, Saša Prižmić, Branko Prižmić, Tonči Prižmić, Marko Prižmić, Đuro Prižmić, Julijana Prižmić, Iva Prižmić, Mario Prižmić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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