Subotić families can be both Serbs and Croats (from Vinkovci area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vinkovci area and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 840 people with faimily name Subotić live in Croatia today, in 400 households. There were 1000 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 47 cities and 87 other places, mostly in Zagreb (140), Ervenik in Knin area (65), Nijemci in Vinkovci area (60), Rijeka (55), and in Zadar (45).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1750 in source 18th Century Census.