Surname Rastić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Rastić families are Croats (from Biograd na moru area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Gospic. In Emovački Lug in Pozega every fourth inhabitant had the family name Rastić.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Rastić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Osijek (<10), Karlovac (<10), Pozega (<10), and in Sibenik (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rastić (including: Rastic , Rastich and Hrastich ) is present in 14 countries on four continents. "Hrastich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Radovan Rastić, Željko Rastić, Igor Rastić, Marijan Rastić, Tomislav Rastić, Zdravko Rastić, Dragana Rastić, Mislav Rastić, Višnja Rastić, Dragan Rastić, Petar Rastić, Roman Rastić, Lidija Rastić, Ivan Rastić, Marin Rastić, Miho Rastić, Dane Rastić, Siniša Rastić, Ivana Rastić

Mentions in sources

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

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