Pocrnić families are Croats and they are mostly from Gospic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic area and in Zagreb. In places Bukovac Perušićki and Kosa Janjačka in Gospic area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Pocrnić.
Prevalence
About 300 people with faimily name Pocrnić live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 430 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 24 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Virovitica (20), Kosa Janjacka in Gospic area (15), Split (15), and in Perusic in Gospic area (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.