In Croatia, Škanić families are Croats (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Škanić live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in two Croatian counties, in one city and 5 other places, mostly in Djurdjekovec (<10), Vurnovec (<10), Prepustovec (<5), Sesvete (<5), and in Kasina (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.