Mandalinić families are Croats and they are mostly from Omis. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Omis.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Mandalinić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Split (45), Kostanje (40), Zagreb (<10), Buzin (<10), and in Pula (<5).
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.