Benčević families are Croats and they are mostly from Slavonski Brod area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slavonski Brod area and in Slavonski Brod. In Gornji Slatinik in Slavonski Brod area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Benčević.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Benčević live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Gornji Slatinik in Slavonski Brod area (20), Slavonski Brod (20), Nustar in Vinkovci area (15), Zagreb (10), and in Zapresic (<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.