Rančić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and in Sinj area.
Prevalence
About 370 people with faimily name Rančić live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Split (65), Zadar (35), Lukoran on the Island of Ugljan (30), Zagreb (30), and in Vojnic Sinjski in Sinj area (25).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.