In Croatia, Belaić families are generally Croats (from Makarska area ), barely Russians, and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Makarska area and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Belaić live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and another small place , mostly in Split (15), Rijeka (<10), Koprivnica (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Makarska (<5).
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.