In Croatia, Milinić families are generally Croats (from Dubrovnik area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and in Middle Bosnia (Bugojno area).
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Milinić live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and two other places, mostly in Mlini in Dubrovnik area (10), Zagreb (<10), Rijeka (<5), Podstrana in Solin area (<5), and in Split (<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.