Gabrić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Drnis area. According to some sources they are from Metkovic and from Herzegovina, rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj and Split. In Zelovo in Sinj every fifth inhabitant had the family name Gabrić.
Prevalence
About 930 people with faimily name Gabrić live in Croatia today, in 400 households. There were 740 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 46 cities and 67 other places, mostly in Zagreb (200), Split (135), Metkovic (75), Lopar on the Island of Rab (35), and in Osijek (35).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.