Surname Spišić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Spišić families are Croats (from Garesnica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djakovo area and in Bjelovar.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Spišić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Stari Mikanovci in Djakovo area (10), Osijek (10), Djakovo (<10), Velika Trnovitica in Garesnica area (<10), and in Zagreb (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Spišić (including: Spisic , Spisich ) is present in 8 countries on three continents. "Spisich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dunja Spišić, Ronald Spišić, Robert Spišić, Jozo Spišić, Franka Spišić, Katica Spišić, Darko Spišić, Božidar Spišić, Elizabeta Spišić, Kristina Spišić, Vlatka Spišić, Leon Spišić, Adalbert Spišić, Matko Spišić, Stjepan Spišić, Marina Spišić, Zdenka Spišić, Željko Spišić, Danica Spišić

Mentions in sources

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

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