In Croatia, Povše families are Croats (from Vinkovci area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Povše live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Dubrovnik (<5), Andrijasevci in Vinkovci area (<5), Kosi in Rijeka area (<5), and in Rijeka (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1925 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.