Matičić families are Croats and they are mostly from Duga Resa. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and Duga Resa. In places Mrežničko Dvorište and Donji Zvečaj in Duga Resa every sixth inhabitant had the family name Matičić.
Prevalence
About 270 people with faimily name Matičić live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 41 other places, mostly in Duga Resa (35), Donji Zvecaj (25), Zagreb (20), Karlovac (20), and in Vinkovci (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.