Surname Deković in modern Croatia

Deković families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Trogir area. According to some sources they are from Rogoznice, rarely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rijeka. In Dekovići in Porec every second inhabitant had the family name Deković.

Prevalence

About 480 people with faimily name Deković live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 380 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 36 other places, mostly in Rijeka (55), Turanj in Biograd na moru area (50), Porec (45), Zagreb (45), and in Split (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (8), the United States (1), Switzerland (1), and to France (1).
Family name Deković (including: Dekovic , Dekovich , Dekovics , Decovich , Decovic , Deckovic and Dekhovich ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. The family name "Dekovic " is used by some 200 people in Chile , about 80 in the United States , and small number of people in Canada , small number of people in France. "Dekovich " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Dekovics " is used by some 100 people in Hungary and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Deković, Darko Deković, Ivan Deković, Zvonimir Deković, Sonja Deković, Zoran Deković, Jasna Deković, Milena Deković, Damir Deković, Eduard Deković, Željko Deković, Planinko Deković, Aleksandra Deković, Dorijan Deković, Renata Deković, Marija Deković, Ante Deković, Petar Deković, Karlo Deković

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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