BIĆANIĆ /bichanich/
This web page contains information about Croatian surname or family name BIĆANIĆ. Anyone who knows anything about the origin of this surname or about the history of BIĆANIĆ family may leave the message in the comment section of this page. Thank you!
Frequency in population of Croatia: 1.052 (537th Most Frequent)
Largest number of persons with that surname in:
Zagreb City (131), Čatrnja near Rakovica (56), Smoljanac at Plitvička jezera (50), Rijeka (39), Saborsko (36), Dabar near Otočac (29), Dugo Selo (28), Slatina (28)
Possible meaning: the surname was derived from toponym Bihać, a town in Northwest part of Bosnia. It denotes a captain of the town in Ottoman Empire. (Bihać was part of Ottoman Empire for many centuries.) Related surnames are Bišćanić, Bišćević and Bičanić.
My great grandfather immigrated to U.S. under name Mato Besenic in 1914. The family name later became Beshenich (Besh-nick). His immigration papers list his home village as Pethovic, Jugo-slavia but his nationality as Croatian. Do you have any information on the name Besenic or the village Pethovic? Thank you!