Surname Vincetić in modern Croatia

Vincetić families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. According to some sources they are from Medjimurje. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Orasje area) and in Zupanja.

Prevalence

About 660 people with faimily name Vincetić live in Croatia today, in 270 households. There were 480 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 37 cities and 44 other places, mostly in Zupanja (125), Zagreb (75), Stitar (60), Viljevo in Donji Miholjac area (50), and in Osijek (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 19 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (8), Austria (4), the United States (4), Australia (2), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Vincetić is present in 11 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Borivoj Vincetić, Ivanka Vincetić, Dražen Vincetić, Željko Vincetić, Ivan Vincetić, Zlatko Vincetić, Hrvoje Vincetić, Darko Vincetić, Dejan Vincetić, Saša Vincetić, Lidija Vincetić, Goran Vincetić, Danko Vincetić, Igor Vincetić, Mario Vincetić, Nenad Vincetić, Franjo Vincetić, Luka Vincetić, Tomislav Vincetić

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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