Surname Vučinić in modern Croatia

Vučinić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Slavonski Brod area. According to some sources they are from Montenegro, often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovsko and Zagreb. In Moravice in Vrbovsko every ninth inhabitant had the family name Vučinić.

Prevalence

About 710 people with faimily name Vučinić live in Croatia today, in 340 households. There were 950 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 42 cities and 78 other places, mostly in Zagreb (115), Rijeka (65), Karlovac (40), Slavsko Polje in Glina area (30), and in Donji Slatinik in Slavonski Brod area (25).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vučinić (including: Vucinic , Vucinich , Vuchinich , Vuchinic , Wucinich , Wucinick and Wuchinich ) is present in 35 countries worldwide. The family name "Vucinic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 80 in Viet Nam , and some 60 people in Germany. "Vucinich " is used by some 100 people in the United States. "Vuchinich " is used by some 70 people in the United States and small number in Russian Federation.

Characteristic first names

Kolinda Vučinić, Gordana Vučinić, Velimir Vučinić, Zoran Vučinić, Jovan Vučinić, Nada Vučinić, Željka Vučinić, Zdenko Vučinić, Ivan Vučinić, Maja Vučinić, Igor Vučinić, Nikola Vučinić, Veljko Vučinić, Siniša Vučinić, Biserka Vučinić, Dragana Vučinić, Milorad Vučinić, Milan Vučinić, Dinko Vučinić

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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