Vičić families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Rovinj area , rarely Italians (from Pula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Senj area. In Burići in Rovinj area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Vičić.
Prevalence
About 330 people with faimily name Vičić live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 26 cities and 36 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Rijeka (55), Crikvenica (20), Retkovci in Vinkovci area (20), and in Kanfanar in Rovinj area (15).
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.