Surname Vukušić in modern Croatia

Vukušić families are Croats and they are mostly from Omis area. According to some sources they are from Visoko area in middle Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis and Split. In Lišnjak in Drnis nearly every inhabitant had the family name Vukušić.

Prevalence

About 1900 people with faimily name Vukušić live in Croatia today, in 800 households. There were 1600 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 74 cities and 139 other places, mostly in Split (455), Zagreb (285), Rijeka (190), Drnis (145), and in Sestanovac in Omis area (50).

Outside Croatia

At least 26 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (12), Sweden (8), France (2), the United States (2), the Netherlands (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Vukušić (including: Vukusic , Vukusich and Wukusick ) is present in 21 countries worldwide. "Vukusich " is used by some 70 people in the United States , small number in Chile , and small number of people in Argentina. "Wukusick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Herman Vukušić, Jagoda Vukušić, Željko Vukušić, Ivan Vukušić, Davor Vukušić, Bože Vukušić, Darko Vukušić, Mirko Vukušić, Jelena Vukušić, Mario Vukušić, Tomislav Vukušić, Miroslav Vukušić, Luka Vukušić, Sebastijan Vukušić, Zvonko Vukušić, Domagoj Vukušić, Marijo Vukušić, Zlatko Vukušić, Vicko Vukušić

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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