Ruklić families are Croats and they are mostly from Donja Stubica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Samobor. In Dubrava Samoborska in Samobor every sixth inhabitant had the family name Ruklić.
Prevalence
About 210 people with faimily name Ruklić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 33 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Samobor (30), Gornja Stubica in Donja Stubica area (15), Karlovac (10), and in Greguric Breg (10).
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.