In Croatia, Čerkić families are Croats (from Dubrovnik ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Čerkić live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Zagreb (10), Dubrovnik (10), and in Lucko (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.