In Croatia, Martines families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Djurdjevac area.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Martines live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties and 5 other places, mostly in Mala Cresnjevica in Djurdjevac area (10), Zapresic (<5), in Klostar Podravski (<5) and Kozarevac (<5) in Djurdjevac area, and in Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.