Marinac families are Croats and they are mostly from Opatija area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb. In Marinci in Buzet every second inhabitant had the family name Marinac.
Prevalence
About 440 people with faimily name Marinac live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 370 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 38 other places, mostly in Zagreb (90), Rijeka (55), Buzet (25), Porec (15), and in Marinci (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1642 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.