Matanić families are Croats and they are mostly from Obrovac area. According to some sources they are from Brinje area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slunj and in Obrovac area. In Donji Lađevac in Slunj every fifth inhabitant had the family name Matanić.
Prevalence
About 490 people with faimily name Matanić live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 510 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 33 cities and 54 other places, mostly in Zagreb (110), Karlovac (40), Ivankovo in Vinkovci area (30), Slavonski Brod (25), and in Donji Andrijevci in Djakovo area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.