Zmaić families are Croats and they are mostly from Djakovo area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djakovo area and in Slavonski Brod. In Stari Perkovci in Djakovo area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Zmaić.
Prevalence
About 260 people with faimily name Zmaić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Stari Perkovci in Djakovo area (50), Slavonski Brod (35), Zagreb (25), and in Vrpolje (20) and Donji Andrijevci (15) in Djakovo area.
Outside Croatia
Family name Zmaić (including: Zmaic , Zmaich ) is present in five countries.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.