Malarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krapina and Zagreb. In Šušelj Brijeg in Krapina every third inhabitant had the family name Malarić.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Malarić live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Polje Krapinsko (40), Zagreb (20), Trski Vrh (15), Varazdin (<10), and in Krapina (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.