In Croatia, Maroti families are Croats (from Slatina area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slatina area and in Koprivnica.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Maroti live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only four naselja i to in Zadar (<10), Cadjavicki Lug in Slatina area (<5), Krizevci (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.