Zalović families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Pasman. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and Gospic.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Zalović live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Tkon on the Island of Pasman (25), Zagreb (25), Zadar (20), Licki Osik (15), and in Velika Barna (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.