Hranić families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ivanec and Varazdin. In places Prigorec and Ivanečka Željeznica in Ivanec every fifth inhabitant had the family name Hranić.
Prevalence
About 560 people with faimily name Hranić live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 460 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 23 cities and 70 other places, mostly in Prigorec (75), Ivanecka Zeljeznica (60), Grdenci (40), Varazdin (40), and in Ivanec (25).
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.