Hrvatin families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Pazin , barely Italians (from Buzet ) and Slovenes. According to some sources the family name originates from Bartic near Labina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rijeka. In Bartići in Labin every third inhabitant had the family name Hrvatin.
Prevalence
About 650 people with faimily name Hrvatin live in Croatia today, in 280 households. There were 660 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 59 other places, mostly in Rijeka (95), Pula (65), Pazin (50), Labin (45), and in Rovinj (40).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.