Dananić families are Croats and they are mostly from Velike Gore near Svetog Ivana Zeline. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sveti Ivan Zelina and Zagreb. In Velika Gora in Sveti Ivan Zelina nearly every inhabitant had the family name Dananić.
Prevalence
About 210 people with faimily name Dananić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 340 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located and 14 other Croatian places, mostly in Sveti Ivan Zelina (50), Velika Gora (40), Zagreb (35), Gornje Psarjevo (35), and in Blazevdol (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.