Markota families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. According to some sources they are from Dalmatia, maybe even Italy. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Posusje area) and in Metkovic.
Prevalence
About 600 people with faimily name Markota live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than tripled. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 37 cities and 34 other places, mostly in Zagreb (130), Rogotin (60), Pleternica (50), Metkovic (45), and in Split (45).
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.