Nestić families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Prelog area and in Zagreb. In Čakanec in Velika Gorica area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Nestić.
Prevalence
About 260 people with faimily name Nestić live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 290 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Donji Vidovec in Prelog area (80), Velika Gorica (55), Zagreb (30), Kotoriba in Prelog area (15), and in Cakovec (<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.