Pilčić families are Croats and they are mostly from Rijeka area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Rijeka area.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Pilčić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and 10 other places, mostly in Podkilavac in Rijeka area (30), Rijeka (10), Drazice in Rijeka area (10), Sapjane in Opatija area (<10), and in Trnovica in Rijeka area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.