Surname Gotovac in modern Croatia

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).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (4), Canada (2), the Netherlands (2), the United States (1), Austria (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Gotovac is present in 19 countries on four continents. The family name "Gotovac " is used by some 50 people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number in Thailand.

Characteristic first names

Josip Gotovac, Ivan Gotovac, Hrvoje Gotovac, Sven Gotovac, Vladimir Gotovac, Nikola Gotovac, Slavko Gotovac, Simona Gotovac, Milan Gotovac, Vesna Gotovac, Petar Gotovac, Ante Gotovac, Blaž Gotovac, Slaven Gotovac, Marta Gotovac, Jadranka Gotovac, Anita Gotovac, Domin Gotovac, Ivanka Gotovac

Mentions in sources

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.

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