Božić is a common surname in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia.
The spelling Božič is found in Slovenia.
Božić is a common surname in Croatia, with 8,115 bearers (2011 census).
[2] In Slovenia, there are more than 3,500 people with the surname Božič, and more than 500 with the surname Božić (most of them are of Croatian or Serbian origin, since the letter "ć" doesn't exist in the Slovenian alphabet).
However, there are important regional differences: while it is the 2nd most common surname in the Lower Sava Statistical Region, and the 4th most common surname in the Coastal–Karst Statistical Region, it is extremely rare in eastern Slovenia.