Braut families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Krk. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Krk and in Rijeka. In Kornić on the Island of Krk every third inhabitant had the family name Braut.
Prevalence
About 90 people with faimily name Braut live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties and 14 other places, mostly in Kornic on the Island of Krk (30), Rijeka (20), in Krk (20) and Vrh (<10) on the Island of Krk, and in Zagreb (<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.