In Croatia, Benedetti families are generally Croats (from Pazin area ), very rarely Italians (from Kutina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Kutina.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Benedetti live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties and 5 other places, mostly in Popovaca in Kutina area (<10), Kraljevica (<10), Tinjan in Pazin area (<10), Gornji Vukojevac in Petrinja area (<5), and in Kutina (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1642 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.