Zaplatić families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zlatar area and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 150 people with faimily name Zaplatić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Polje Krapinsko (20), in Sipki (15) and Lobor (15) in Zlatar area, and in Varazdin (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.