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Surname Vekarić in modern Croatia
In Croatia, Vekarić families are Croats (from Peljesac Peninsula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and Rijeka. In Podobuče on Peljesac Peninsula every fourth inhabitant had the family name Vekarić.
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Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Vekarić live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and four other places, mostly in Dubrovnik (20), Orebic on the Peljesac peninsula (15), Rijeka (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Mlini in Dubrovnik area (<5).
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Outside Croatia
Family name Vekarić is present in this form only in Croatia.
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Characteristic first names
Nenad Vekarić,
Dražen Vekarić,
Marijana Vekarić,
Ivana Vekarić,
Vesna Vekarić,
Bernardica Vekarić,
Ivica Vekarić,
Živko Vekarić,
Kristian Vekarić,
Doris Vekarić,
Tonko Vekarić,
Barbara Vekarić,
Marko Vekarić,
Stjepan Vekarić,
Antun Vekarić,
Branko Vekarić,
Mihaela Vekarić,
Semida Vekarić,
Željko Vekarić