Grbčić families are Croats and they are mostly from Crikvenica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Crikvenica. In Jadranovo in Crikvenica every sixth inhabitant had the family name Grbčić.
Prevalence
About 160 people with faimily name Grbčić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Jadranovo (90), Rijeka (40), Crikvenica (<10), Dramalj (<10), and in Drivenik in Novi Vinodolski area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.