Smolica families are Croats and they are mostly from Porec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Porec area and in Pula. In Smolići in Porec area every second inhabitant had the family name Smolica.
Prevalence
About 100 people with faimily name Smolica live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in two Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Anzici in Porec area (20), Brajkovici (10), Pula (<10), and in Tinjan (<10) and Jakovici (<10) in Pazin area.
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.