List of people associated with the Republic of Ragusa

Reflecting the dual Romance and Slavic influence on Ragusan culture, most Ragusan noble families, as well as members of the citizen class, used both Romance and Slavic versions of their first and last names, especially since the Late Middle Ages onward, while the lower classes mostly only used Slavic names.

When only the Romance version of a first or last name appears in the sources, modern Croatian and Serbian scientific literature very frequently translates it creating a new slavicized version, which often results in various errors due to insufficient knowledge of Ragusan traditions, e.g. erroneously using non-Ragusan Slavic form "Vinko" instead of Ragusan Slavic form "Vicko", or "Blaž" instead of "Vlaho", or incorrectly adapting a Romance version while ignoring actual Ragusan usage, e.g. "Natal" instead of "Božo", "Junije" instead of "Džono".

[2]: 20, 21, 23 When several persons had the same first and last name, it was Ragusan custom to append the father's name in the genitive case, also changing the declension of the last name (in Ragusan the genitive case for nouns ending in -o is -a), e.g. there were two persons named Đivo Gundulić, so one was called Đivo Frana Gundulića, and the other Đivo Nika Gundulića (in modern literature this is sometimes indicated with the possessive determiner -ov, thus Franov, Nikov, translated to English as Frano's, Niko's).

When translating this into Latin, the genitive case was kept, e.g. Joannes Francisci Gundulae, however, when translating into languages in which names do not have grammatical cases (such as Italian) it was written as effectively a middle name (Giovanni Francesco Gondola).

[3][4] Some examples of Romance and Slavic versions of last names:[1] Bassegli, Basilio - Basiljević Bobali, Babalio - Bobaljević Bona - Bunić Bonda - Bundić Caboga - Kabužić Cerva, Cervinus - Crijević Ghetaldi - Getaldić Giorgi - Đorđić, Đurđević Gondola - Gundulić Gozze - Gučetić Gradi - Gradić Luccari - Lukarević Menze - Menčetić Palmotta - Palmotić Pozza - Pucić Resti - Rastić, Restić Sorgo - Sorkočević Stay - Stojković Zamagna - Zamanja, Zamanjić