In Croatia, Benasić families are Croats (from Nova Gradiska area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska and in Nova Gradiska area.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Benasić live in Croatia today, in 15 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Staro Petrovo Selo in Nova Gradiska area (15), Zagreb (<5), Nova Gradiska (<5), Rijeka (<5), and in Sesvete (<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.