Rihtarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Zlatar area.
Prevalence
About 230 people with faimily name Rihtarić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 290 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Lobor in Zlatar area (20), Varazdin (20), Vojnovec Loborski in Zlatar area (15), and in Ratkovec (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.