In Croatia, Filakovac families are Croats (from Vinkovci area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vinkovci and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Filakovac live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and four other places, mostly in Retkovci in Vinkovci area (15), Zagreb (<10), Rijeka (<5), Prkovci in Vinkovci area (<5), and in Vinkovci (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Filakovac is present in this form only in Croatia.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.