Jagatić families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrbovca. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Bosanian Posavina (Brcko area). In Peskovec in Vrbovec every sixth inhabitant had the family name Jagatić.
Prevalence
About 400 people with faimily name Jagatić live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 580 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 43 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Sesvete (40), Draganic in Karlovac area (35), Peskovec (30), and in Krasic in Jastrebarsko area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1679 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.