About 2600 people with faimily name Kolarić live in Croatia today, in 1100 households. There were 2800 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 0 percent. They are located in all Croatian counties, in 66 cities and 280 other places, mostly in Zagreb (390), Cakovec (120), Varazdin (115), Gardinovec in Cakovec area (85), and in Koprivnica (80).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.