About 20 people with faimily name Nigoević live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in only four naselja i to in Nerezisca on the Island of Brac (15), Split (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Donji Humac on the Island of Brac (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Nigoević is present in four countries on two continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.