Bareta families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Ciovo. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Trogir and Split.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Bareta live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and threee other places, mostly in Okrug Gornji on the Island of Ciovo (55), Split (20), Trogir (20), Zagreb (15), and in Varazdinske Toplice (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.