Surname Pušić in modern Croatia

Pušić families are Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area. According to some sources they are from Herceg Novi (Montenegro) or Zupa Dubrovacka near Dubrovnik. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Posusje area) and in Imotski area. In Zavelim in Herzegovina every second inhabitant had the family name Pušić.

Prevalence

About 1200 people with faimily name Pušić live in Croatia today, in 480 households. There were 620 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 42 cities and 96 other places, mostly in Zagreb (265), Split (125), Valpovo (60), Osijek (50), and in Velika Gorica (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 25 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (11), Austria (3), Canada (3), Switzerland (2), the United States (2), Australia (2), Sweden (1), and to France (1).
Family name Pušić (including: Pusich , Pusic , Pushic , Pushich , Pushnick , Pussich , Pusick and Pussic ) is present in 16 countries worldwide. The family name "Pusic " is used by some 70 people in the United States. "Pusich " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Thailand , and small number of people in Chile. "Pushic " is used by some 50 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marko Pušić, Jana Pušić, Mate Pušić, Zoran Pušić, Mato Pušić, Željko Pušić, Zdenko Pušić, Siniša Pušić, Mladen Pušić, Zvonko Pušić, Velimir Pušić, Tanja Pušić, Milan Pušić, Anđelko Pušić, Spomenka Pušić, Stjepan Pušić, Marinko Pušić, Mario Pušić, Tomislav Pušić

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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