About 90 people with faimily name Marinelić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 6 cities and two other places, mostly in Gornji Humac (35), Supetar (20) and Bol (15) on the Island of Brac, Split (10), and in Solin (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Marinelić is present in this form only in Croatia.
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.