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