Bogović families are usually Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Krk , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin. In places Sveti Anton and Bogovići on the Island of Krk every second inhabitant had the family name Bogović.
Prevalence
About 1500 people with faimily name Bogović live in Croatia today, in 620 households. There were 1700 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 54 cities and 174 other places, mostly in Zagreb (255), Karlovac (100), Varazdin (60), Rijeka (55), and in Slunj (50).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.