Šokić families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Orasje area) and in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanska Gradiska area).
Prevalence
About 340 people with faimily name Šokić live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 29 other places, mostly in Orubica in Nova Gradiska area (40), Zagreb (40), Slavonski Brod (40), Bosnjaci in Zupanja area (35), and in Nova Gradiska (25).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.