Mihovilović families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Solta. According to some sources they are from Humac in Herzegovina, and rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Pula. In Srednje Selo on the Island of Solta every fifth inhabitant had the family name Mihovilović.
Prevalence
About 500 people with faimily name Mihovilović live in Croatia today, in 250 households. There were 710 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 23 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Split (120), Klis in Solin area (95), Pula (80), Zagreb (35), and in Zadar (30).
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.