Lemić families are predominantly Croats and they are mostly from Karlovac , less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac.
Prevalence
About 130 people with faimily name Lemić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 240 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 14 other places, mostly in Karlovac (40), Zagreb (40), Zadar (20), Sulinec (<10), and in Lovran in Opatija area (<10).
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.