Kopajtić families are Croats and they are mostly from Bakar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb. In Kukuljanovo in Bakar every seventh inhabitant had the family name Kopajtić.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Kopajtić live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Kukuljanovo (50), Zagreb (35), Rijeka (25), Jastrebarsko (<10), and in Skrljevo (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.