Surname Vujić in modern Croatia

Vujić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Knin area , often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Knin area and in Zagreb. In Donja Bukovica in Slatina area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Vujić.

Prevalence

About 1300 people with faimily name Vujić live in Croatia today, in 590 households. There were 1400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 65 cities and 147 other places, mostly in Zagreb (200), Osijek (55), Slavonski Brod (50), Rijeka (40), and in Slatina (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 28 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (8), the United States (7), Austria (5), the United Kingdom (2), the Netherlands (1), Norway (1), South Africa (1), Sweden (1), Australia (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Vujić (including: Vujic , Wujick and Vuyich ) is present in 27 countries on four continents. The family name "Vujic " is used by some 200 people in Iraq , about 100 in Germany , and about 100 in the United States. "Wujick " is used by some 80 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Antun Vujić, Vidoje Vujić, Sanja Vujić, Lovorka Vujić, Goran Vujić, Jasna Vujić, Jure Vujić, Slaven Vujić, Dalibor Vujić, Eugen Vujić, Dunja Vujić, Davor Vujić, Damir Vujić, Milica Vujić, Žarka Vujić, Svetislav Vujić, Marica Vujić, Mirjana Vujić, Gordana Vujić

Mentions in sources

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

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