In Croatia, Raica families are Croats (from Jastrebarsko ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Jastrebarsko and Karlovac. In Pavlovčani in Jastrebarsko every tenth inhabitant had the family name Raica.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Raica live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in two Croatian counties, in one city and 5 other places, mostly in Pavlovcani (<10), Zdihovo (<10), Jastrebarsko (<5), Stubicke Toplice in Oroslavje area (<5), and in Donji Desinec (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.