In Croatia, Debić families are generally Croats (from Varazdinske Toplice ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and Varazdinske Toplice.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Debić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Gora (15), Leskovec Toplicki (10), Osijek (<10), and in Matulji in Opatija area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.