Bolarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pregrada and Zagreb. In Vrhi Vinagorski in Pregrada every fifth inhabitant had the family name Bolarić.
Prevalence
About 180 people with faimily name Bolarić live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Kostelsko (10), Sopot (10), Velika Gorica (<10), and in Jarmina in Vinkovci area (<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.