Zoričić families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Drnis. According to some sources they are from Modrusa, very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis and Zagreb. In Pakovo Selo in Drnis every fourth inhabitant had the family name Zoričić.
Prevalence
About 490 people with faimily name Zoričić live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 90 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Zagreb (135), Sibenik (95), Pakovo Selo (40), Split (35), and in Novi Vinodolski (25).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over fifty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.