Surname Zengić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Zengić families are Croats (from Pozega area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pozega area and in Nova Gradiska.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Zengić live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and two other places, mostly in Sibenik (<10), Zagreb (<5), Knin (<5), and in Bili Brig (<5) and Magic Mala (<5) in Pozega area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Zengić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Vedran Zengić, Gordana Zengić, Ivančica Zengić, Brankica Zengić, Ljiljana Zengić, Dražen Zengić, Dragutin Zengić, Bara Zengić, Antun Zengić, Mara Zengić, Damir Zengić, Ivana Zengić, Stjepan Zengić, Božica Zengić, Jela Zengić, Mato Zengić, Ivan Zengić, Marija Zengić, Ivica Zengić

Mentions in sources

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

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