Matušić families are Croats and they are mostly from Dubrovnik. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and in Janjevo, Kosovo. In Gromača in Dubrovnik every ninth inhabitant had the family name Matušić.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Matušić live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Dubrovnik (30), Zagreb (25), Gromaca (20), Mokosica (10), and in Matulji in Opatija area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.