In Croatia, Bankić families are Croats (from Orahovica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Orahovica area and in Slatina.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Bankić live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Mikleus in Orahovica area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.