In Croatia, Mišnić families are generally Croats (from Novigrad ), very rarely Montenegrins (from Mojkovca, Montenegro ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and Virovitica.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Mišnić live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled. They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and two other places, mostly in Virovitica (10), Osijek (<10), Novigrad (<10), Buje (<5), and in Kapela Dvor in Virovitica area (<5).
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.