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Surname Čavka in modern Croatia
Čavka families are Croats and they are mostly from Kastela area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and in Kastela area. In Divojevići in Kastela area every third inhabitant had the family name Čavka.
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Prevalence
About 400 people with faimily name Čavka live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 320 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 24 cities and 23 other places, mostly in Kastel Stari (70), Zagreb (50), Split (40), Kastel Sucurac (40), and in Divojevici in Kastela area (30).
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Outside Croatia
Family name Čavka (including: Cavka , Chavka and Cavca ) is present in 22 countries worldwide. "Chavka " is used by some 80 people in the United States and small number in Ukraine.
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Characteristic first names
Marinko Čavka,
Ante Čavka,
Vlatka Čavka,
Marin Čavka,
Goran Čavka,
Ivan Čavka,
Anita Čavka,
Boško Čavka,
Petar Čavka,
Slavko Čavka,
Damir Čavka,
Krešimir Čavka,
Mislav Čavka,
Tomislav Čavka,
Zvonko Čavka,
Dujo Čavka,
Snježana Čavka,
Smiljana Čavka,
Dragica Čavka
