In Croatia, Katkić families are generally Croats (from Vrbovsko area ), very rarely Bosniaks (from East Herzegovine ), and barely Italians (from Umag ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Lepoglava. In Tulica in Middle Bosnia every third inhabitant had the family name Katkić.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Katkić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Rijeka (<10), Velika Gorica (<10), Resnik Bosiljevski in Vrbovsko area (<10), and in Umag (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.