Surname Viličić in modern Croatia

Viličić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Hvar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and on the Island of Hvar.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Viličić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Vrboska on the Island of Hvar (15), Split (<10), Rijeka (<10), and in Varazdin (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United Kingdom (1) and the United States (1).
Family name Viličić (including: Vilicic , Vilicich and Velicic ) is present in 13 countries on four continents. "Vilicich " is used by some 80 people in the United States and about 60 in Argentina.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Viličić, Nikica Viličić, Damir Viličić, Darko Viličić, Boško Viličić, Robert Viličić, Ksenija Viličić, Radoslav Viličić, Saša Viličić, Irena Viličić, Jasna Viličić, Vlasta Viličić, Željka Viličić, Katarina Viličić, Pero Viličić, Josipa Viličić, Ela Viličić, Ratko Viličić, Marinka Viličić

Mentions in sources

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

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