Rodić families are predominantly Croats and they are mostly from Janjevo , Kosovo. According to some sources they are from village Trabusi in Gornja Poljica, where they immigrated from Bosnia or from Dubrovnik area, rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Janjevo, Kosovo. In Trubar in Western Bosnia every second inhabitant had the family name Rodić.
Prevalence
About 1100 people with faimily name Rodić live in Croatia today, in 450 households. There were 790 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent. They are located in all Croatian counties, in 52 cities and 90 other places, mostly in Zagreb (340), Suhovare in Zadar area (50), Nurkovac in Pozega area (45), Domankus in Bjelovar area (40), and in Split (40).
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.