In Croatia, Marinculić families are generally Croats (from the Island of Losinj ), very rarely Italians (from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Losinj and in Rijeka.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Marinculić live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only five naselja i to in Mali Losinj on the Island of Losinj (<10), Zagreb (<5), Rijeka (<5), Senj (<5), and in Nerezine on the Island of Losinj (<5).
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.