Parać families are Croats and they are mostly from Knin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Knin area and in Zagreb. In Puljane in Knin area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Parać.
Prevalence
About 400 people with faimily name Parać live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 26 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (135), Zadar (55), Split (35), Solin (20), and in Vinkovci (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.