Surname Vučković in modern Croatia

Vučković families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area or Tomislavgrad area, Herzegovina, rearly Serbs from Duga Resa area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sinj. In Kozlikovo, near Klinča selaone of two inhabitants had the family name Vučković.

Prevalence

About 3300 people with faimily name Vučković live in Croatia today, in 1400 households. There were 3700 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 98 cities and 256 other places, mostly in Zagreb (565), Brnaze (290), Sinj (135), Rijeka (125), and in Split (120).

Outside Croatia

At least 58 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (23), the United States (14), Australia (9), Canada (5), France (2), Sweden (2), Switzerland (2), and to Austria (1).
Family name Vučković (including: Vuckovic , Vuckovich , Vuchkovich and Wuckovich ) is present in 43 countries worldwide. The family name "Vuckovic " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 400 in Germany , and some 300 people in Tanzania. "Vuckovich " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 200 in Paraguay , and small number of people in Australia , small number of people in Canada. "Wuckovich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Vučković, Boženko Vučković, Natalija Vučković, Jadranka Vučković, Kristina Vučković, Marija Vučković, Ivan Vučković, Marijo Vučković, Sanja Vučković, Vedrana Vučković, Joško Vučković, Ante Vučković, Kristijan Vučković, Savo Vučković, Dražen Vučković, Miodrag Vučković, Ana Vučković, Gordana Vučković, Krešimir Vučković

Mentions in sources

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

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