Surname Vukovac in modern Croatia

Vukovac families are Croats and they are mostly from Djakovo area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djakovo area and in Slavonski Brod.

Prevalence

About 270 people with faimily name Vukovac live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 29 other places, mostly in Velika Kopanica in Djakovo area (70), Osijek (30), Divosevci in Djakovo area (20), Zagreb (15), and in Split (15).

Outside Croatia

At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), Australia (1), Switzerland (1), the United States (1), France (1), Canada (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Vukovac (including: Vuckovac , Vukovatz ) is present in 11 countries on three continents. "Vukovatz " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Luka Vukovac, Zdravko Vukovac, Damir Vukovac, Igor Vukovac, Brankica Vukovac, Ivan Vukovac, Ivanka Vukovac, Zvonko Vukovac, Andrija Vukovac, Marijana Vukovac, Stijepo Vukovac, Josip Vukovac, Mirjana Vukovac, Marija Vukovac, Antun Vukovac, Ivica Vukovac, Ruža Vukovac, Darko Vukovac, Vjekoslav Vukovac

Mentions in sources

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

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