Brodarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Cakovec area. In Letovanić in Petrinja area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Brodarić.
Prevalence
About 220 people with faimily name Brodarić live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 29 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Gorican in Cakovec area (25), Letovanic in Petrinja area (20), Split (20), and in Trogir (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1938 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.