In Croatia, Bernić families are generally Croats (from Podrinje (Bosnia) ), rarely Italians (from Umag ), and barely Bosniaks (from Bakar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Petrinja and Sisak. In Brankovići in Podrinje (Bosnia) nearly every inhabitant had the family name Bernić.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Bernić live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Petrinja (10), Sisak (10), Umag (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Zadar (<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.