Alić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Zadar area , also Bosniaks (from Podrinje, Bosnia), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar area and in Zadar. In Osatica in Podrinje (Bosnia) nearly every inhabitant had the family name Alić.
Prevalence
About 720 people with faimily name Alić live in Croatia today, in 320 households. There were 440 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 54 cities and 65 other places, mostly in Zagreb (140), Policnik in Zadar area (85), Rijeka (45), Zadar (40), and in Gunja in Zupanja area (35).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.