In Croatia, Vitezić families are Croats (from the Island of Krk ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and on the Island of Krk.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Vitezić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in two Croatian counties, threee cities and 5 other places, mostly in Vrbnik on the Island of Krk (15), Zagreb (10), Rijeka (10), and in Punat (<10) and Omisalj (<5) on the Island of Krk.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.