Ladović families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Samobor. In Rakov Potok in Samobor every eighth inhabitant had the family name Ladović.
Prevalence
About 270 people with faimily name Ladović live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Rakov Potok (60), Zagreb (45), Rezovac (30), and in Gornji Stupnik (15) and Kalinovica (10) in Samobor area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.