Surname Vujković in modern Croatia

Vujković families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Daruvar area , whereas often Croats (Zupanja area). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Backa, Vojvodina and in Benkovac.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Vujković live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 250 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Borovo in Vukovar area (10), Daruvar (<10), Biograd na moru (<10), and in Rijeka (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vujković (including: Vujkovic , Vuykovich ) is present in 16 countries on three continents. The family name "Vujkovic " is used by small number of people in Russian Federation , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Teodosije Vujković, Željko Vujković, Anton Vujković, Karlo Vujković, Dragan Vujković, Dragutin Vujković, Marica Vujković, Tatjana Vujković, Ivica Vujković, Krunoslav Vujković, Goran Vujković, Maja Vujković, Barica Vujković, Nataša Vujković, Kristina Vujković, Dženi Vujković, Mladen Vujković, Ivan Vujković, Ana Vujković

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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