Petrinović families are Croats and they are mostly from Vinkovci area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Split. In Goli Vrh in Sveti Ivan Zelina area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Petrinović.
Prevalence
About 350 people with faimily name Petrinović live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 320 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 26 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Zagreb (65), Split (50), Otok in Vinkovci area (25), Vinkovci (20), and in Novi Vinodolski (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.