Runje families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj. According to some sources they are from Rama (north Herzegovina), Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj and Split.
Prevalence
About 560 people with faimily name Runje live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 290 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 24 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Karakasica (105), Sinj (100), Obrovac Sinjski (100), Zagreb (55), and in Jasensko (40).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.