Vrankić families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Capljina area) and in North Herzegovina (Konjic area). In Krupac in North Herzegovina every third inhabitant had the family name Vrankić.
Prevalence
About 140 people with faimily name Vrankić live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Metkovic (15), Ploce (15), Cerna in Zupanja area (10), and in Zupanja (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.