In Croatia, Bareš families are Croats (from Djakovo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek area and in Djakovo area.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Bareš live in Croatia today, in 15 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in two Croatian counties, four cities and four other places, mostly in Osijek (10), Djakovo (<10), Belisce (<10), Vuka in Djakovo area (<10), and in Veliki Zdenci (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.