In Croatia, Čerić families are predominantly Croats (from Krizevci ), rarely Italians (from Zagreb ), and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Koprivnica.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Čerić live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in four Croatian cities only: in Zagreb (<10), Carevdar (<5), Slavonski Brod (<5), and in Kastel Stari (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.