Surname Smolčić in modern Croatia

Smolčić families are Croats and they are mostly from Senj area. According to some sources they are from Lika or Dalmatinske Zagore. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Otocac and Zagreb. In Dabar in Otocac every fifth inhabitant had the family name Smolčić.

Prevalence

About 1400 people with faimily name Smolčić live in Croatia today, in 600 households. There were 1300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 0 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 58 cities and 127 other places, mostly in Zagreb (205), Split (65), Rijeka (60), Rokovci in Vinkovci area (60), and in Sisak (55).

Outside Croatia

At least 28 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (12), Australia (6), Austria (4), Switzerland (2), the United States (2), the Netherlands (1), and to France (1).
Family name Smolčić is present in 12 countries on four continents. The family name "Smolcic " is used by some 200 people in Afghanistan , about 60 in Germany , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Smolčić, Jasmina Smolčić, Silvestra Smolčić, Mile Smolčić, Žarko Smolčić, Zoran Smolčić, Željko Smolčić, Franjo Smolčić, Vinko Smolčić, Tomo Smolčić, Tomislav Smolčić, Vladimir Smolčić, Igor Smolčić, Nikola Smolčić, Andrea Smolčić, Dinko Smolčić, Mirna Smolčić, Hrvoje Smolčić, Petra Smolčić

Mentions in sources

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

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