Rakarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Glina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Glina area and in Glina. In Ponikvari in Glina area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Rakarić.
Prevalence
About 210 people with faimily name Rakarić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Ponikvari in Glina area (45), Sisak (15), Petrinja (15), and in Kajgana (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.