Barbalić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Krk. According to some sources they are from Travnik area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and on the Island of Krk. In Baška on the Island of Krk every tenth inhabitant had the family name Barbalić.
Prevalence
About 150 people with faimily name Barbalić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Rijeka (70), Baska on the Island of Krk (35), Zagreb (15), Split (10), and in Krk on the Island of Krk (<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.