Dobrinić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Duga Resa area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Duga Resa area and in Karlovac. In Barilović in Duga Resa area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Dobrinić.
Prevalence
About 290 people with faimily name Dobrinić live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 430 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 22 cities and 40 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), in Barilovic (35) and Podvozic (25) in Duga Resa area, Karlovac (25), and in Glinska Poljana (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.