Bartolić families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area , rarely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Prelog area. In Donji Mihaljevec in Prelog area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Bartolić.
Prevalence
About 1200 people with faimily name Bartolić live in Croatia today, in 510 households. There were 1200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 51 cities and 117 other places, mostly in Zagreb (340), Sveta Marija in Prelog area (65), Karojba in Pazin area (40), Zapresic (35), and in Okrugljaca in Virovitica area (35).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1672 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.