Lazarić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Pula area. According to some sources they are from Lazarici near Krsan, very rarely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rijeka. In Mošćenice in Opatija area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Lazarić.
Prevalence
About 360 people with faimily name Lazarić live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 500 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 45 other places, mostly in Pula (50), Rijeka (35), Slavonski Brod (25), Labin (20), and in Lovran in Opatija area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.