Matijaca families are Croats and they are mostly from Kastel Sucurac. According to some sources they are from Kastel Luksic. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Kastel Sucurac. In Kaštel Lukšić in Kastel Sucurac every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Matijaca.
Prevalence
About 100 people with faimily name Matijaca live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties and threee other places, mostly in Kastel Luksic (65), Split (30), Zagreb (15), Kastel Sucurac (10), and in Trogir (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Matijaca is present in four countries on two continents.
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.