Ivakić families are Croats and they are mostly from Trogir area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Brcko area) and in Srijem, Vojvodina.
Prevalence
About 150 people with faimily name Ivakić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Primorski Dolac in Trogir area (25), Rijeka (15), Drenovci in Zupanja area (15), Vinkovci (10), and in Zagreb (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.