Surname Žigulić in modern Croatia

Žigulić families are Croats and they are mostly from Opatija. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Žigulić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 12 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Opatija (15), Poljane (10), Rukavac in Opatija area (<10), and in Veprinac (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Žigulić (including: Zigulich , Zigulic ) is present in four countries on three continents. "Zigulich " is used by some 60 people in the United States and small number in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Mladen Žigulić, Roberto Žigulić, Rino Žigulić, Josip Žigulić, Eleonora Žigulić, Dalibor Žigulić, Bruno Žigulić, Nina Žigulić, Zlatica Žigulić, Branko Žigulić, Jagoda Žigulić, Ivanka Žigulić, Ivica Žigulić, Nevio Žigulić, Adrijana Žigulić, Vedran Žigulić, Josipa Žigulić, Edo Žigulić, Karin Žigulić

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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