In Croatia, Cikota families are mainly Croats (from Valpovo area ), less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and Zagreb. In Ivanjski Bok in Hrvatska Kostajnica area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Cikota.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Cikota live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Zadar (<5), Rijeka (<5), Kutina (<5), and in Zabok (<5).