Surname Gojković in modern Croatia

Gojković families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Daruvar area , whereas often Croats (from Koprivnica area ), very rarely Montenegrins. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Slavonski Brod. In Zimić in Duga Resa area every second inhabitant had the family name Gojković.

Prevalence

About 470 people with faimily name Gojković live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 500 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 41 cities and 56 other places, mostly in Zagreb (70), Slavonski Brod (35), Rijeka (35), Koprivnica (25), and in Veliki Poganac in Koprivnica area (20).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gojković (including: Gojkovich , Gaykovich , Gojkovic , Goicovich , Golyakovich , Goykovich , Goicovic , Gajkovic , Goykovic and Goikovich ) is present in 31 countries worldwide. The family name "Gojkovic " is used by some 100 people in Germany , about 90 in Libya , and small number of people in the United States. "Gojkovich " is used by some 200 people in the United States. "Goykovich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Višnja Gojković, Nenad Gojković, Antonija Gojković, Goran Gojković, Jugoslav Gojković, Mladen Gojković, Gordana Gojković, Renato Gojković, Zoran Gojković, Sanja Gojković, Davorin Gojković, Stanko Gojković, Milijana Gojković, Dragan Gojković, Željko Gojković, Marko Gojković, Tatjana Gojković, Blažan Gojković, Božidar Gojković

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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