Vukotić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Peljesac Peninsula , often Serbs, very rarely Bosniaks (from Dubrovnik ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Hrvatska Kostajnica area and in Dubrovnik. In Povelič in Bosnian Krajina every second inhabitant had the family name Vukotić.
Prevalence
About 240 people with faimily name Vukotić live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 320 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 36 other places, mostly in Rijeka (25), Pula (15), Dubrovnik (15), Zagreb (15), and in Drljaca in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.