In Croatia, Popovich families are Croats (from Zadar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula area.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Popovich live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Zadar (<5), Pula (<5), and in Dubrovnik (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over two hundred times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.