Surname Skendžić in modern Croatia

Skendžić families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Otocac area , whereas often Croats. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Otocac and Zagreb. In Ponori in Otocac every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Skendžić.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Skendžić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Rijeka (25), Zagreb (15), Zadar (<10), Karlovac (<10), and in Lepoglava (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (2) and the United States (1).
Family name Skendžić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Nevenka Skendžić, Marina Skendžić, Ljerka Skendžić, Živanka Skendžić, Srđan Skendžić, Aleksandar Skendžić, Nikola Skendžić, Vida Skendžić, Marija Skendžić, Ljiljana Skendžić, Goran Skendžić, Veselin Skendžić, Vajo Skendžić, Žarko Skendžić, Branko Skendžić, Mario Skendžić, Milovan Skendžić, Nada Skendžić, Mićo Skendžić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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