Šubat families are Croats and they are mostly from Bakr area (Hreljin and Zlobin). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Bakar.
Prevalence
About 160 people with faimily name Šubat live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and 19 other places, mostly in Rijeka (40), Hreljin (40), Praputnjak (15), Zagreb (10), and in Zlobin (<10).
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.