Židov families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Prelog and Cakovec. In Draškovec in Prelog every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Židov.
Prevalence
About 170 people with faimily name Židov live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Prelog (30), Draskovec (25), Vinkovci (10), and in Legrad in Koprivnica area (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.