Jemić families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Samobor and Zagreb. In Drežnik Podokićki in Samobor every eighth inhabitant had the family name Jemić.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Jemić live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and 7 other places, mostly in Klinca Sela (10) and Trzic (<10) in Jastrebarsko area, Virovitica (<5), Repisce in Jastrebarsko area (<5), and in Hrvatski Leskovac (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Jemić (including: Jemic , Yemich and Yemic ) is present in four countries on two continents. "Yemich " is used by small number of people in the United States.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.
