In Croatia, Uković families are Croats (from Senj ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Opatija area.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Uković live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in four Croatian counties and four other places, mostly in Opatija (<10), Senj (<10), in Lovran (<10) and Matulji (<5) in Opatija area, and in Senj (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.