Pavoković families are Croats and they are mostly from Belisce. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Belisce and in Slatina area. In Crnac in Sisak every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Pavoković.
Prevalence
About 220 people with faimily name Pavoković live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 240 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Valpovo (20), Osijek (20), Virovitica (20), Belisce (20), and in Crnac in Slatina area (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.