In Croatia, Kuničić families are Croats (from the Island of Hvar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and on the Island of Hvar. In Dol on the Island of Hvar every nintieth inhabitant had the family name Kuničić.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Kuničić live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only four naselja i to in Split (15), Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Ivan Dolac on the Island of Hvar (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.