Surname Vitković in modern Croatia

Vitković families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina area. According to some sources they are from Bileca. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin. In Čabdin in Jastrebarsko every second inhabitant had the family name Vitković.

Prevalence

About 470 people with faimily name Vitković live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 580 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 32 cities and 59 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Cabdin (30), Turkovcina in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (25), Rijeka (20), and in Bjelovar (20).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (5), Sweden (2), Switzerland (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Vitković (including: Vitkovic , Vitkovich , Vitcovich , Witkovich , Witkovic , Witkowich , Vítkovic and Whitkovic ) is present in 21 countries on four continents. The family name "Vitkovic " is used by some 90 people in the United States , about 70 in Czech Republic , and some 60 people in Switzerland. "Vitkovich " is used by some 90 people in Ukraine , about 60 in the United States , and small number of people in Russian Federation. "Vitcovich " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Guatemala.

Characteristic first names

Eduard Vitković, Tomislav Vitković, Andrija Vitković, Karen Vitković, Miroslav Vitković, Bibiana Vitković, Marijan Vitković, Zdravko Vitković, Antun Vitković, Damir Vitković, Adalbert Vitković, Mirko Vitković, Lucija Vitković, Ante Vitković, Branimir Vitković, Anton Vitković, Kate Vitković, Zlatka Vitković, Marko Vitković

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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