Krištić families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. According to some sources they are from middle Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Orasje area) and in Western Bosnia (Tomislavgrad area). In Borčani in Western Bosnia every seventh inhabitant had the family name Krištić.
Prevalence
About 510 people with faimily name Krištić live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 34 cities and 50 other places, mostly in Zagreb (115), Hrscevani in Imotski area (50), Slavonski Brod (45), Zupanja (40), and in Rijeka (20).
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.
