Karačić families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Siroki Brijeg area) and in Herzegovina (Mostar area). In places Gornji Crnač , Biletići and Donji Crnač in Herzegovina every fourth inhabitant had the family name Karačić.
Prevalence
About 810 people with faimily name Karačić live in Croatia today, in 310 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 40 cities and 62 other places, mostly in Zagreb (335), Sesvete (50), Slavonski Brod (40), Velika Gorica (40), and in Split (30).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.