Barberić families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Bjelovar. In Čista Mlaka in Dugo Selo area every second inhabitant had the family name Barberić.
Prevalence
About 290 people with faimily name Barberić live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 450 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 40 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Sesvete (20), Bjelovar (15), Taboriste (15), and in Djurdjevac (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1571 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.