Benaković families are Croats and they are mostly from Zupanja. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zupanja and in Slavonski Brod area. In Vrhovina in Slavonski Brod area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Benaković.
Prevalence
About 200 people with faimily name Benaković live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Zupanja (55), Zagreb (50), Stitar (20), Slavonski Brod (15), and in Osijek (15).
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.