Briški families are Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Lepoglava area.
Prevalence
About 580 people with faimily name Briški live in Croatia today, in 260 households. There were 610 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 39 cities and 57 other places, mostly in Zagreb (155), Rijeka (40), Delnice (35), Varazdin (25), and in Crni Lug (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1693 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.