Ivanišević families are frequently Croats and they are mostly from Nova Gradiska area and according to some sources from Poljica , Split or Drnis, less frequently Serbs and Roms (from Gospic ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Zagreb. In Vedašić in Obrovac area every second inhabitant had the family name Ivanišević.
Prevalence
About 1700 people with faimily name Ivanišević live in Croatia today, in 680 households. There were 1500 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in all Croatian counties, in 64 cities and 136 other places, mostly in Split (270), Zagreb (225), Godinjak in Nova Gradiska area (105), Jesenice in Omis area (70), and in Nasice (65).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over sixty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.