In Croatia, Milih families are generally Croats (from Kastav ), very rarely Slovenes (from Opatija area ), and barely Bosniaks. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Opatija.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Milih live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties and 9 other places, mostly in Kastav (25), Brncici (20), Matulji in Opatija area (<10), Opatija (<10), and in Rijeka (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.