In Croatia, Škarika families are generally Croats (from Ivanec area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Ivanec area.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Škarika live in Croatia today, in 15 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in only five Croatian places: in Zagreb (30), Zapresic (<10), Kapelec in Ivanec area (<5), Prigorje Brdovecko in Zapresic area (<5), and in Biljevec in Ivanec area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.