Zlatarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Karlovac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and Zagreb. In places Karasi and Kobilić Pokupski in Karlovac every third inhabitant had the family name Zlatarić.
Prevalence
About 160 people with faimily name Zlatarić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 190 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 18 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Karlovac (20), Osijek (15), Kobilic Pokupski (10), and in Sisak (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.