Krnetić families can be both Serbs and Croats (from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Cazins Region, Bosnia (Bosanska Krupa area). In Donji Dubovik in Cazins Region (Bosnia) every sixth inhabitant had the family name Krnetić.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Krnetić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Moscenicka Draga in Opatija area (10), Dubrovnik (<10), Icici (<10), and in Osijek (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.