Ujević families are Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area. According to some sources they are from east Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Imotsko. In Krivodol in Imotski area every third inhabitant had the family name Ujević.
Prevalence
About 630 people with faimily name Ujević live in Croatia today, in 260 households. There were 440 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 34 other places, mostly in Krivodol in Sinj area (155), Split (140), Zagreb (120), Krivodol in Imotski area (45), and in Solin (30).
Outside Croatia
Family name Ujević (including: Ujevich , Ujevic ) is present in 8 countries on three continents. "Ujevich " is used by small number of people in the United States.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.