Gotovac families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Drnis area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis area and in Split. In Gornje Vinovo in Drnis area every second inhabitant had the family name Gotovac.
Prevalence
About 690 people with faimily name Gotovac live in Croatia today, in 260 households. There were 370 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 80 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Solin (140), Split (130), Zagreb (95), Kastel Stari (60), and in Otok in Vinkovci area (30).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1928 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.