. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and on Dugi, Long Island. In Savar on Dugi (Long) Island every fourth inhabitant had the family name Šarunić.
Prevalence
About 100 people with faimily name Šarunić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 0 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zadar (40), Brgulje (15), Split (15), Zagreb (10), and in Rijeka (<10).
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.