Barkić families are Croats and they are mostly from middle Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Middle Bosnia (Vares area) and in Zagreb. In Očevlje in Middle Bosnia every eighth inhabitant had the family name Barkić.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Barkić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Djurdjevac (<10), Rijeka (<10), Ferdinandovac in Djurdjevac area (<10), and in Kopcevec (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.