Surname Radetić in modern Croatia

Radetić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Rovinj area , s according to some sources from Montenegro, rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rijeka. In Barat in Rovinj area every third inhabitant had the family name Radetić.

Prevalence

About 670 people with faimily name Radetić live in Croatia today, in 300 households. There were 730 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 77 other places, mostly in Pula (70), Rovinj (55), Zagreb (40), Rijeka (30), and in Matulji in Opatija area (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 20 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (6), the United States (5), Sweden (3), Canada (2), Germany (2), Austria (1), and to Norway (1).
Family name Radetić (including: Radetic , Radetich ) is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Radetic " is used by some 300 people in Brazil , about 200 in the United States , and some 200 people in Italy. "Radetich " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 90 in Argentina , and some 50 people in Italy.

Characteristic first names

Darko Radetić, Miljenko Radetić, Ivica Radetić, Branko Radetić, Dražen Radetić, Velimir Radetić, Siniša Radetić, Ervin Radetić, Ivan Radetić, Hrvoje Radetić, Mladen Radetić, Gracijano Radetić, Miranda Radetić, Brankica Radetić, Marijo Radetić, Ksenija Radetić, Marinela Radetić, Nino Radetić, Iris Radetić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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