Surname Zovko in modern Croatia

Zovko families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina (according to some sources from larger area of Siroki Brijeg or Vinjani Gornji Posuski). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Mostar area) and in Herzegovina (Siroki Brijeg area). In places Polog and Oklaji in Herzegovina every third inhabitant had the family name Zovko.

Prevalence

About 1600 people with faimily name Zovko live in Croatia today, in 650 households. There were 320 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 61 cities and 134 other places, mostly in Zagreb (510), Split (130), Metkovic (95), Osijek (50), and in Sesvete (45).

Outside Croatia

At least 14 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (8), Australia (2), Sweden (1), the United States (1), Austria (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Zovko is present in 27 countries worldwide. The family name "Zovko " is used by some 400 people in Germany , about 300 in the United States , and some 80 people in Venezuela.

Characteristic first names

Jure Zovko, Vatroslav Zovko, Ivana Zovko, Gojko Zovko, Mira Zovko, Tihonija Zovko, Sandra Zovko, Ivica Zovko, Ciril Zovko, Marinko Zovko, Vlasta Zovko, Marin Zovko, Darko Zovko, Marina Zovko, Jozo Zovko, Dragan Zovko, Orsat Zovko, Dennis Zovko, Davor Zovko

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1924 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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