Marčinko families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. According to some sources the family name originates from Herzegovina or Montenegro, very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and in Podrinje, Bosnia (Zvornik area). In Glumina in Podrinje (Bosnia) every fifth inhabitant had the family name Marčinko.
Prevalence
About 340 people with faimily name Marčinko live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Dubrovnik (40), Vinkovci (35), and in Virje (30) and Novo Virje (15) in Djurdjevac area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1689 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.