Tomičić families are Croats and they are mostly from Makarska area. According to some sources they are from Konavle. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Makarska area. In Ričice in Obrovac area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Tomičić.
Prevalence
About 1500 people with faimily name Tomičić live in Croatia today, in 640 households. There were 1200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 61 cities and 121 other places, mostly in Zagreb (295), Split (100), Zagvozd in Makarska area (80), Rijeka (60), and in Osijek (60).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.