Kranjčić families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin.
Prevalence
About 310 people with faimily name Kranjčić live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 370 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 24 cities and 29 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Petrijanec in Varazdin area (40), Varazdin (35), Donja Bistra in Oroslavje area (20), and in Kranjcici in Labin area (10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Kranjčić is present in five countries on two continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.