Božinović families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrlika. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrlika and Split. In Ježević in Vrlika every fifth inhabitant had the family name Božinović.
Prevalence
About 640 people with faimily name Božinović live in Croatia today, in 270 households. There were 340 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 90 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 42 cities and 39 other places, mostly in Split (115), Zagreb (90), Bapska (65), Hrvace in Sinj area (40), and in Jezevic (30).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1930 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.