In Croatia, Vine families are almost entirely Croats (from Karlovac ), barely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Vine live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and four other places, mostly in Recica (15), Karlovac (10), Zagreb (<10), Brodjani (<10), and in Breznik Plesivicki (<5).
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.