In Croatia, Orkaš families are Croats (from Nova Gradiska area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska area.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Orkaš live in Croatia today, in three households only. They are located in only threee Croatian places: in Zadar (<5), and in Gornji Bogicevci (<5) and Gorice (<5) in Nova Gradiska area.
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.