Barbić families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic area. According to some sources they are from Prolozac Donji near Imotski. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Middle Bosnia (Travnik area) and in Zagreb. In Grahovčići in Middle Bosnia every eighth inhabitant had the family name Barbić.
Prevalence
About 590 people with faimily name Barbić live in Croatia today, in 250 households. There were 450 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 45 cities and 64 other places, mostly in Zagreb (125), Jelsa on the Island of Hvar (40), Rijeka (30), Zapresic (20), and in Donji Prolozac in Imotski area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1691 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.