In Croatia, Malašić families are almost entirely Croats (from Cakovec ), very rarely Italians (from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Cakovec area.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Malašić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Rijeka (10), Cakovec (<10), Slemenice (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Lopatinec in Cakovec area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.