Bistrički families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sveti Ivan Zelina and Zagreb. In Gornja Drenova in Sveti Ivan Zelina every sixth inhabitant had the family name Bistrički.
Prevalence
About 140 people with faimily name Bistrički live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Gornja Drenova (45), Zagreb (15), Sveti Ivan Zelina (15), Donja Zelina (<10), and in Novo Pracno (<10).
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.