Čović families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Makarska area. According to some sources they are from Poljica (near Omis) or from Siroki Brijeg, Herzegovina, rarely Bosniaks (Cazinska Krajina, Bosnia), and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Sinj. In Ljuti Dolac in Herzegovina every sixth inhabitant had the family name Čović.
Prevalence
About 2300 people with faimily name Čović live in Croatia today, in 850 households. There were 1000 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 80 cities and 175 other places, mostly in Zagreb (310), Split (240), Tucepi in Makarska area (210), Makarska (80), and in Opuzen (70).
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.