Maoduš families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Gospic , whereas often Croats (from Slavonski Brod ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic and Zagreb. In Medak in Gospic every ninth inhabitant had the family name Maoduš.
Prevalence
About 90 people with faimily name Maoduš live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Selna in Slavonski Brod area (15), Medak (10), Rijeka (10), and in Slavonski Brod (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1927 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.