Benić families are Croats and they are mostly from Nova Gradiska area. According to some sources they are from Golubinac in the Popovo valley. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Middle Bosnia (Kakanj area). In Grganjica in Duga Resa nearly every inhabitant had the family name Benić.
Prevalence
About 1700 people with faimily name Benić live in Croatia today, in 700 households. There were 1600 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 62 cities and 143 other places, mostly in Zagreb (170), Davor in Nova Gradiska area (90), Rijeka (90), Karlovac (70), and in Slavonski Brod (70).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over fifty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.