Dankić families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. According to some sources they are from Citluk (Herzegovina). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Derventa area) and in Middle Bosnia (Travnik area).
Prevalence
About 220 people with faimily name Dankić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (80), Zagreb (20), Rijeka (15), Dugo Selo (10), and in Pula (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.