Surname Zoričić in modern Croatia

Zoričić families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Drnis. According to some sources they are from Modrusa, very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis and Zagreb. In Pakovo Selo in Drnis every fourth inhabitant had the family name Zoričić.

Prevalence

About 490 people with faimily name Zoričić live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 90 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Zagreb (135), Sibenik (95), Pakovo Selo (40), Split (35), and in Novi Vinodolski (25).

Outside Croatia

At least ten families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (5), the United Kingdom (2), New Zealand (1), Argentina (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Zoričić (including: Zoricic , Zorichic , Zorichich and Zoricich ) is present in 14 countries worldwide. The family name "Zoricic " is used by some 60 people in Australia , about 60 in the United States , and some 50 people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Željko Zoričić, Ivan Zoričić, Zoran Zoričić, Tihomir Zoričić, Goran Zoričić, Milan Zoričić, Branimir Zoričić, Velibor Zoričić, Davor Zoričić, Sanja Zoričić, Amalija Zoričić, Helena Zoričić, Dubravko Zoričić, Mihael Zoričić, Božidar Zoričić, Filip Zoričić, Zvonimir Zoričić, Nada Zoričić, Krešimir Zoričić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over fifty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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