In Croatia, Bernich families are predominantly Italians (from Umag ), rarely Croats. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Buje.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Bernich live in Croatia today, in two households only. They are located in only two naselja i to in Finida (<5) and Umag (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.