Patković families are often Serbs and they are mostly from Vukovar area , less frequently Croats. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vukovar area and in Vukovar. In Bobota in Vukovar area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Patković.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Patković live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Bobota in Vukovar area (60), Vukovar (20), Slavonski Brod (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Sesvete (<5).
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.