Surname Rakić in modern Croatia

Rakić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Vrgorac , often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Benkovac and Vrgorac. In Višnjica in Vrgorac every second inhabitant had the family name Rakić.

Prevalence

About 1400 people with faimily name Rakić live in Croatia today, in 650 households. There were 1500 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 0 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 66 cities and 126 other places, mostly in Zagreb (230), Split (95), Pula (80), Slavonski Brod (55), and in Rijeka (50).

Outside Croatia

At least 38 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (13), Germany (9), the United States (6), France (3), Austria (2), the United Kingdom (2), the Netherlands (1), Canada (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Rakić (including: Rakic , Rakich , Rakici , Racic , Racich , Rakiec , Rakitsch , Rakhicha , Rakick and Rakiecz ) is present in 44 countries worldwide. The family name "Rakic " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 300 in Germany , and some 100 people in France. "Rakich " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 100 in Australia , and some 100 people in New Zealand. "Rakiec " is used by some 90 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Drago Rakić, Vini Rakić, Ivica Rakić, Mladen Rakić, Jadranko Rakić, Goran Rakić, Dobrislav Rakić, Mislav Rakić, Tihana Rakić, Zoran Rakić, Marko Rakić, Miran Rakić, Gordana Rakić, Ivan Rakić, Tatjana Rakić, Ante Rakić, Branko Rakić, Mirjana Rakić, Marijo Rakić

Mentions in sources

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

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