Lončarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Crikvenica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Selce in Crikvenica every fifth inhabitant had the family name Lončarić.
Prevalence
About 2600 people with faimily name Lončarić live in Croatia today, in 1100 households. There were 2800 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in all Croatian counties, in 74 cities and 237 other places, mostly in Zagreb (585), Selce (145), Rijeka (90), Koprivnica (90), and in Osijek (70).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over a hundred times, the first time 1678 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.