Gobac families are Croats and they are mostly from Virovitica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sisak. In Vranovine in Gospic every third inhabitant had the family name Gobac.
Prevalence
About 150 people with faimily name Gobac live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 14 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Sisak (20), Novska (20), Jamarica (10), and in Kutina (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.