Dautović families are often Croats and they are mostly from Nova Gradiska area , less frequently Bosniaks (from Bosnian Krajina ) and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska and in Nova Gradiska area. In Gunjavci in Nova Gradiska area every third inhabitant had the family name Dautović.
Prevalence
About 400 people with faimily name Dautović live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 29 other places, mostly in Zagreb (65), in Resetari (40) and Gunjavci (30) in Nova Gradiska area, Nova Gradiska (25), and in Zapolje in Nova Gradiska area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.