In Croatia, Smodiš families are Croats (from Orahovica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Orahovica area and in Nasice area.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Smodiš live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Stara Josava (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Vodice (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.