Surname Vučić in modern Croatia

Vučić families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Ogulin , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ogulin and Sinj. In Blatnica in Bosnian Krajina every fifth inhabitant had the family name Vučić.

Prevalence

About 1500 people with faimily name Vučić live in Croatia today, in 610 households. There were 1100 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 66 cities and 117 other places, mostly in Zagreb (310), Ogulin (225), Glavice (125), Vid (65), and in Split (60).

Outside Croatia

At least 24 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (11), Australia (4), the United States (4), Switzerland (2), Austria (1), Canada (1), and to France (1).
Family name Vučić (including: Vucic , Vucich , Vuckic , Vuchich , Vuchic , Vucas , Wuchich , Vuchnich and Wutschik ) is present in 29 countries on four continents. The family name "Vucic " is used by some 300 people in Germany , about 300 in the United States , and some 60 people in Australia. "Vuchic " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Vucich " is used by some 100 people in the United States and small number in New Zealand.

Characteristic first names

Ivana Vučić, Boris Vučić, Ljerka Vučić, Ivan Vučić, Dorotea Vučić, Marinko Vučić, Petar Vučić, Marija Vučić, Nikša Vučić, Vinko Vučić, Dunja Vučić, Darko Vučić, Ružica Vučić, Siniša Vučić, Branka Vučić, Zlatko Vučić, Majda Vučić, Vlatkica Vučić, Velimir Vučić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned about one hundred times, the first time 1750 in source 18th Century Census.

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