Surname Vidoš in modern Croatia

Vidoš families are Croats and they are mostly from Ogulin area (Javorovica near Modrusa). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Bosanian Posavina (Modrica area). In Drežnik Grad in Slunj area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Vidoš.

Prevalence

About 300 people with faimily name Vidoš live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 33 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Dreznik Grad in Slunj area (35), Imotski (20), Stari Mikanovci in Djakovo area (15), and in Gornji Vinjani (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vidoš (including: Vidos , Vidosh , Widdoss , Vidossi and Widosh ) is present in 21 countries worldwide. The family name "Vidos " is used by some 500 people in Greece , about 400 in Hungary , and some 300 people in the United States. "Vidosh " is used by some 100 people in the United States. "Widosh " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ljubica Vidoš, Jadranka Vidoš, Nataša Vidoš, Damir Vidoš, Đani Vidoš, Berislav Vidoš, Goran Vidoš, Josip Vidoš, Antonia Vidoš, Mladen Vidoš, Željko Vidoš, Mičo Vidoš, Dragutin Vidoš, Anton Vidoš, Marko Vidoš, Krešimir Vidoš, Iva Vidoš, Dinko Vidoš, Snježana Vidoš

Mentions in sources

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

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