Ivanić families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Donja Stubica area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Donja Stubica area. In Utješinovići in Podrinje (Bosnia) every second inhabitant had the family name Ivanić.
Prevalence
About 810 people with faimily name Ivanić live in Croatia today, in 350 households. There were 870 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in all Croatian counties, in 58 cities and 98 other places, mostly in Zagreb (165), Jaksinec in Donja Stubica area (50), Lopar on the Island of Rab (35), Duga Resa (30), and in Dugo Selo (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.