Lišnić families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj area and in Osijek. In Vrpolje in Sinj area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Lišnić.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Lišnić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Vrpolje in Sinj area (40), Osijek (35), Split (15), Sinj (10), and in Antunovac in Osijek area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.