Šabarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Samobor. In Mala Gorica in Samobor area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Šabarić.
Prevalence
About 240 people with faimily name Šabarić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Mala Gorica in Samobor area (20), Hampovica in Djurdjevac area (15), Djurdjevac (15), and in Jertovec in Zlatar area (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Šabarić (including: Sabaric , Sabarich ) is present in 7 countries on three continents. The family name "Sabaric " is used by small number of people in the United States.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.