Prka families are Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotski area and in Western Bosnia (Tomislavgrad area). In Vranjače in Western Bosnia every third inhabitant had the family name Prka.
Prevalence
About 270 people with faimily name Prka live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 23 cities and 23 other places, mostly in Split (45), Zagreb (45), Bjelovar (40), Koprivnica (20), and in Studenci in Imotski area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.