In Croatia, Harasti families are Croats (from Senj ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Virovitica.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Harasti live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 6 cities and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Ivanja Reka (<5), Senj (<5), Zadar (<5), and in Velika Gorica (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1938 in source Phone Book - Zagreb 1938.