Surname Sučević in modern Croatia

Sučević families can be both Croats (the family name originates from Trogir area ) and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Glina area. In Otrić in Knin area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Sučević.

Prevalence

About 340 people with faimily name Sučević live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 510 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 32 cities and 38 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Slavsko Polje in Glina area (45), Karlovac (30), Rijeka (15), and in Vukovar (10).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Austria (4), South Africa (1), Germany (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Sučević (including: Sucevic , Sucevich , Suchevic and Suchewicz ) is present in 16 countries worldwide. The family name "Sucevic " is used by some 80 people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Austria. "Sucevich " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Suchewicz " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Danko Sučević, Radmila Sučević, Perica Sučević, Marija Sučević, Mladen Sučević, Srđan Sučević, Maja Sučević, Davor Sučević, Goran Sučević, Siniša Sučević, Jakov Sučević, Darjo Sučević, Zoran Sučević, Iva Sučević, Jasna Sučević, Zdravko Sučević, Željko Sučević, Petar Sučević, Gordan Sučević

Mentions in sources

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

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