Surname Čolović in modern Croatia

Čolović families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Drnis , also Croats (also from Drnis ), very rarely Montenegrins. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis and Knin. In Tepljuh in Drnis every third inhabitant had the family name Čolović.

Prevalence

About 220 people with faimily name Čolović live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 390 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 26 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Siveric (40), Zagreb (35), Split (20), Knin (20), and in Tepljuh (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čolović (including: Colovich , Colovic , Cholovic , Cholovich , Colowick , Colowich and Colovici ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. The family name "Colovic " is used by some 100 people in Germany , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Tunisia. "Colovich " is used by some 70 people in the United States. "Cholovich " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zaviša Čolović, Gradimir Čolović, Nenad Čolović, Predrag Čolović, Duško Čolović, Josip Čolović, Nikolina Čolović, Mirjana Čolović, Milan Čolović, Snježana Čolović, Fatima Čolović, Katarina Čolović, Dunja Čolović, Igor Čolović, Velimir Čolović, Hazima Čolović, Saša Čolović, Vesna Čolović, Nezir Čolović

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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