In Croatia, Stare families are Croats (from Middle Bosnia ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Middle Bosnia (Zenica area).
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Stare live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (15), Varazdin (<10), Zapresic (<5), Prigorje Brdovecko in Zapresic area (<5), and in Klek in Opuzen area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.