Gospodnetić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Brac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and on the Island of Brac. In Dol on the Island of Brac every fifth inhabitant had the family name Gospodnetić.
Prevalence
About 260 people with faimily name Gospodnetić live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Split (70), in Supetar (45), Dol (45) and Postira (40) on the Island of Brac, and in Zagreb (35).
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.