In Croatia, Ritar families are Croats (from Knin ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotsko and Knin.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Ritar live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in only two Croatian places: in Karlovac (<10) and Podgorje Krnjacko in Duga Resa area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.