Barat families are Croats and they are mostly from Mursko Sredisce. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Mursko Sredisce and Cakovec.
Prevalence
About 100 people with faimily name Barat live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Mursko Sredisce (30), Cakovec (10), Karanac in Beli Manastir area (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Nasice (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.