In Croatia, Dimnik families are Croats by relative majority (from Doboj area, BiH ), equally Slovenes (from Delnice ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slovenia and in Delnice.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Dimnik live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Zagreb (<10) and Rijeka (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.