Surname Sakačić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Sakačić families are Croats (from Garesnica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and in Garesnica area. In Gornja Ploščica in Garesnica area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Sakačić.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Sakačić live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in only threee Croatian places: in Palesnik in Garesnica area (<10), Osijek (<5), and in Bizovac in Valpovo area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sakačić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Ivica Sakačić, Zdravko Sakačić, Marin Sakačić, Antun Sakačić, Josipka Sakačić, Josip Sakačić, Kata Sakačić, Ruža Sakačić, Slaven Sakačić, Maja Sakačić, Ivan Sakačić, Gabrijela Sakačić, Jana Sakačić, Josipa Sakačić

Mentions in sources

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

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