Karakaš families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Obrovac area. According to some sources they are from Plascice near Brinja, rarely Hungarians from Osijek area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Obrovac area and in Slavonski Brod.
Prevalence
About 330 people with faimily name Karakaš live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 360 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Slavonski Brod (35), Bilje in Osijek area (20), Sesvete (20), and in Brinje in Senj area (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.