Spajić families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Grude area) and in Middle Bosnia (Zepce area). In Grude in Herzegovina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Spajić.
Prevalence
About 1200 people with faimily name Spajić live in Croatia today, in 430 households. There were 240 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 56 cities and 86 other places, mostly in Zagreb (260), Sesvete (65), Piskorevci (55), Vinkovci (40), and in Split (40).
Outside Croatia
At least 14 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (8), Austria (3), France (2), and to the United States (1). Family name Spajić is present in 17 countries worldwide. The family name "Spajic " is used by some 500 people in Germany , about 100 in the United States , and some 70 people in Japan.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.
