Surname Rašić in modern Croatia

Rašić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Tuzla Region (Bosnia). According to some sources they are from Ljubuski, Klobuk and Tihaljina (Herzegovina), rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Derventa area) and in Herzegovina (Ljubuski area). In Dole in Tuzla Region (Bosnia) every second inhabitant had the family name Rašić.

Prevalence

About 2300 people with faimily name Rašić live in Croatia today, in 900 households. There were 420 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 69 cities and 203 other places, mostly in Zagreb (545), Slavonski Brod (210), Sesvete (145), Osijek (115), and in Ruscica in Slavonski Brod area (105).

Outside Croatia

At least 33 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (13), Australia (6), Switzerland (4), Austria (3), Argentina (2), the United States (2), France (1), the United Kingdom (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Rašić (including: Rasic , Rasich , Rascic , Rashich , Raschick , Rasick , Raszick , Rassnick , Rashic and Rassic ) is present in 18 countries worldwide. The family name "Rasic " is used by some 300 people in the United States. "Rasich " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 80 in Belarus , and small number of people in Russian Federation. "Rascic " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ante Rašić, Žarko Rašić, Mehmed Rašić, Josip Rašić, Vjekoslav Rašić, Borislav Rašić, Kata Rašić, Zlatko Rašić, Zdenko Rašić, Ivan Rašić, Slavko Rašić, Marko Rašić, Dragana Rašić, Anica Rašić, Siniša Rašić, Zoran Rašić, Domagoj Rašić, Danijela Rašić, Duško Rašić

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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