In Croatia, Vodarić families are almost entirely Croats (from the Island of Cres ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and on the Island of Cres. In Lubenice on the Island of Cres every eighth inhabitant had the family name Vodarić.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Vodarić live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are only located in threee Croatian cities and threee other places, mostly in Rijeka (10), Cres on the Island of Cres (10), Mali Losinj on the Island of Losinj (<10), and in Loznati (<5) and Pernat (<5) on the Island of Cres.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1614 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.