Leović families are Croats and they are mostly from Slavonski Brod area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slavonski Brod and in Slavonski Brod area.
Prevalence
About 90 people with faimily name Leović live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (25), Donja Bebrina in Slavonski Brod area (20), Zagreb (15), and in Klakar (<10) and Poljanci (<10) in Slavonski Brod area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.