Surname Žigić in modern Croatia

Žigić families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Korenica area , whereas often Croats (Nasice area). According to some sources they are from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Otocac area. In Tuk Bjelopoljski in Otocac area nearly every inhabitant had the family name Žigić.

Prevalence

About 420 people with faimily name Žigić live in Croatia today, in 200 households. There were 680 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 37 cities and 50 other places, mostly in Zagreb (120), Korenica in Otocac area (40), Donja Moticina in Nasice area (25), Rijeka (15), and in Bosnjaci in Zupanja area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (1), the Netherlands (1), Germany (1), the United States (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Žigić (including: Zigich , Zigic ) is present in 7 countries on four continents. The family name "Zigic " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Zigich " is used by some 200 people in the United States , small number in Mexico , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Žarko Žigić, Damir Žigić, Nikolina Žigić, Domagoj Žigić, Nedjeljka Žigić, Vesna Žigić, Omerka Žigić, Boris Žigić, Vlatko Žigić, Duško Žigić, Marijana Žigić, Mićo Žigić, Branko Žigić, Dinko Žigić, Snježana Žigić, Đurđica Žigić, Dražen Žigić, Marin Žigić, Katica Žigić

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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