Surname Tica in modern Croatia

Tica families are often Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Grude area) and in Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 180 people with faimily name Tica live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 20 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Vukovar (25), Rijeka (10), Osijek (10), and in Split (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (1) and the United States (1).
Family name Tica (including: Tichá , Tiza , Ticca , Ttica , Tiezza , Ticha , Tizza , Titza and Tieza ) is present in 61 countries worldwide. "Titza " is used by few people in the United States. "Tieza " is used by few people in the United States. "Ticha " is used by some 600 people in Czech Republic , about 60 in Germany , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Viktor Tica, Milka Tica, Josip Tica, Blago Tica, Zdenko Tica, Kristijan Tica, Željko Tica, Ivan Tica, Miroslav Tica, Mira Tica, Venka Tica, Vinko Tica, Vjenceslav Tica, Vesna Tica, Snježana Tica, Biljana Tica, Gojko Tica, Filip Tica, Miljenko Tica

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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