Maltarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Lepoglava area and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 180 people with faimily name Maltarić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Koprivnica (20), in Jazbina Cvetlinska (15) and Cvetlin (10) in Lepoglava area, and in Peteranec in Koprivnica area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.