In Croatia, Matuč families are Croats (from the Island of Krk ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and on the Island of Krk.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Matuč live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and threee other places, mostly in Malinska (<10) and Zgombici (<5) on the Island of Krk, Zagreb (<5), Rijeka (<5), and in Pula (<5).
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.