In Croatia, Etinger families are Croats (from Middle Bosnia ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Delnice. In Lučice in Delnice every fiftieth inhabitant had the family name Etinger.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Etinger live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only two Croatian places: in Rovinj (<10) and Valbandon (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.