In Croatia, Šaranić families are Croats (from Sisak area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak area and in Sisak.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Šaranić live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only four naselja i to in Mahovo (20) and Lijeva Martinska Ves (10) in Sisak area, Hrvatska Kostajnica (<5), and in Sisak (<5).
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.