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Surname Novković in modern Croatia
Novković families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Duga Resa area , whereas often Croats (from Gospic ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic and Karlovac. In Pavlovac Vrebački in Gospic every third inhabitant had the family name Novković.
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Prevalence
About 450 people with faimily name Novković live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 590 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 43 cities and 58 other places, mostly in Zagreb (90), Karlovac (40), Split (25), Dunjak in Duga Resa area (25), and in Miocinovici (15).
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Outside Croatia
At least 13 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (4), Australia (4), the United States (3), Switzerland (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Novković (including: Novkovic , Novkovich ) is present in 25 countries worldwide. The family name "Novkovic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 60 in Japan , and some 60 people in Germany.
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Characteristic first names
Miroslav Novković,
Đorđe Novković,
Boris Novković,
Zlatko Novković,
Jelena Novković,
Mišo Novković,
Milan Novković,
Saša Novković,
Nenad Novković,
Milivoj Novković,
Tihomir Novković,
Aleksandar Novković,
Slavko Novković,
Fani Novković,
Marina Novković,
Zorka Novković,
Ankica Novković,
Predrag Novković,
Vladimir Novković