Batinović families are Croats and they are mostly from Opuzen area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Metkovic and in Opuzen area. In places Desne and Krvavac in Opuzen area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Batinović.
Prevalence
About 460 people with faimily name Batinović live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Metkovic (165), Ploce (50), Zagreb (30), Komin (20), and in Kula Norinska in Opuzen area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.