Križmanić families are Croats and they are mostly from Rovinj area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pazin and Pula.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Križmanić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Kanfanar in Rovinj area (25), Gologorica in Pazin area (15), Rovinj (10), Pazin (<10), and in Porec (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.