Surname Sekić in modern Croatia

Sekić families are Croats and they are mostly from middle Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Middle Bosnia (Novi Travnik area) and in Middle Bosnia (Travnik area). In Gornje Pećine in Middle Bosnia every fifth inhabitant had the family name Sekić.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Sekić live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Dubocac in Pleternica area (15), Drnis (10), Split (<10), and in Pula (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sekić (including: Sekic , Secic , Sekich , Secas , Secich , Shekhich , Sechnick and Secash ) is present in 20 countries on three continents. The family name "Sekic " is used by some 50 people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number in Sweden. "Sekich " is used by some 70 people in the United States. "Secic " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 60 in Norway , and some 50 people in Australia.

Characteristic first names

Jure Sekić, Zlatko Sekić, Manda Sekić, Anto Sekić, Ksenija Sekić, Goran Sekić, Ivo Sekić, Marija Sekić, Ivica Sekić, Maja Sekić, Jelica Sekić, Pero Sekić, Rikard Sekić, Ivana Sekić, Dalibor Sekić, Sandra Sekić, Jozo Sekić, Franka Sekić, Dragan Sekić

Mentions in sources

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

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