Barlović families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Krapina. In Gornja Pačetina in Krapina every fifth inhabitant had the family name Barlović.
Prevalence
About 300 people with faimily name Barlović live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 23 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Zagreb (65), Gornja Pacetina (35), Andrasevec (20), Donji Kraljevec in Prelog area (15), and in Bobovje (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.