Surname Ćosić in modern Croatia

Ćosić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Krajina , barely Serbs and Bosniaks (from Bosnian Posavina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosnian Krajina (Teslic area) and in Banja Luka Region, Bosnia (Banja Luka area). In Priječani in Banja Luka Region (Bosnia) every third inhabitant had the family name Ćosić.

Prevalence

About 4200 people with faimily name Ćosić live in Croatia today, in 1700 households. There were 1000 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 96 cities and 381 other places, mostly in Zagreb (795), Slavonski Brod (230), Split (220), Osijek (140), and in Sesvete (100).

Outside Croatia

At least 79 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (25), Austria (17), Australia (14), the United States (5), Switzerland (5), France (4), Canada (4), Finland (2), Sweden (2), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Ćosić (including: Cosic , Cossich , Cosich , Chosich , Cossic , Cossick , Tschositsch , Cosick , Cosici and Coshic ) is present in 39 countries worldwide. The family name "Cosic " is used by some 400 people in Germany , about 300 in the United States , and some 100 people in Austria. "Chosich " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Russian Federation. "Cosich " is used by some 60 people in France and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vesna Ćosić, Stjepan Ćosić, Krešimir Ćosić, Petar Ćosić, Tatjana Ćosić, Željko Ćosić, Vjekoslav Ćosić, Zoran Ćosić, Hrvatin Ćosić, Brankica Ćosić, Dubravko Ćosić, Predrag Ćosić, Jasenka Ćosić, Boženko Ćosić, Dalibor Ćosić, Ivana Ćosić, Jadranka Ćosić, Ivica Ćosić, Ozren Ćosić

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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