Mahović families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. According to some sources they are from Vrhovcak near Samobor. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Samobor. In Vrhovčak in Samobor every fourth inhabitant had the family name Mahović.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Mahović live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 10 other places, mostly in Samobor (35), Zagreb (30), Vrhovcak (20), Pazin (<10), and in Gajec (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.