In Croatia, Sutlić families are generally Croats (from Duga Resa area ), barely Bosniaks (from Zagreb ), and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Sutlić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are only located in in 7 Croatian cities and threee other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Karlovac (10), Rijeka (<10), Mali Losinj on the Island of Losinj (<10), and in Mali Erjavec (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.