Zmiša families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina. In Donja Drenova in Sveti Ivan Zelina every fifth inhabitant had the family name Zmiša.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Zmiša live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and 15 other places, mostly in Donja Drenova (45), Belovar (15), Sesvete (10), Blaskovec (<10), and in Zagreb (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Zmiša is present in two countries on two continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.