Uroić families are Croats the family name originates from Zlatar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zlatar. In Brlekovo in Zlatar area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Uroić.
Prevalence
About 250 people with faimily name Uroić live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Zagreb (130), Sesvete (25), Kutina (10), Zlatar-Bistrica in Oroslavje area (10), and in Zapresic (10).
Outside Croatia
At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (1) and Canada (1). Family name Uroić is present in five countries on two continents.
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.