Romić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Vrlika. According to some sources they are from Rakitno near Posusje (Herzegovina), rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Western Bosnia (Livno area) and in Vrlika. In Garjak in Vrlika every sixth inhabitant had the family name Romić.
Prevalence
About 1200 people with faimily name Romić live in Croatia today, in 500 households. There were 720 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 61 cities and 100 other places, mostly in Zagreb (180), Split (65), Osijek (60), Metkovic (55), and in Cepin in Osijek area (50).
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.