In Croatia, Eić families are Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Petrinja and Sisak.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Eić live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Gornja Mlinoga (<5).
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.