Mareković families are Croats and they are mostly from Glina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sisak. In places Hotnja and Gređani in Glina area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Mareković.
Prevalence
About 360 people with faimily name Mareković live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 550 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 41 other places, mostly in Zagreb (115), Sela (20), Spisic Bukovica in Virovitica area (15), Hotnja in Glina area (15), and in Glina (15).
Outside Croatia
Family name Mareković (including: Marekovic , Marekovich ) is present in 12 countries on three continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.