Vivoda families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Buzet , rarely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Buzet and in Slovenia. In Sveti Martin in Buzet every fifth inhabitant had the family name Vivoda.
Prevalence
About 290 people with faimily name Vivoda live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Buzet (60), Rijeka (40), Pula (20), Umag (20), and in Veli Mlun (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1938 in source Phone Book - Zagreb 1938.