In Croatia, Marketić families are Croats (from Drnis area ), barely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis area and in Sinj area.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Marketić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 6 cities and threee other places, mostly in Split (15), Djakovo (10), Zagreb (<10), Osijek (<10), and in Kastel Sucurac (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1842 in source Catholic Church Parish Records 1842.