Matijaščić families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Samobor and in Slovenia.
Prevalence
About 190 people with faimily name Matijaščić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and 16 other places, mostly in Bregana (50), Samobor (35), Klokocevec Samoborski (20), Podvrh (20), and in Zagreb (15).
Outside Croatia
Family name Matijaščić is present in three countries on three continents.
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.