Marević families are Croats and they are mostly from Bagalovici near Metkovic. According to some sources they are from Pasicine, where they immigrated from the Island of Hvar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Metkovic and Ploce.
Prevalence
About 530 people with faimily name Marević live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Metkovic (140), Stasevica (95), Split (45), Ploce (40), and in Momici in Opuzen area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1930 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.