In Croatia, Maljik families are almost entirely Croats (from Slavonski Brod area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slavonski Brod area and in Slavonski Brod.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Maljik live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are only located in four Croatian cities and 5 other places, mostly in Klokocevik in Slavonski Brod area (<10), Slavonski Brod (<10), Biograd na moru (<5), Josipovac (<5), and in Trnjani in Slavonski Brod area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.