Žitković families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. According to some sources they are from the Island of Vis or from Zupa Dubrovacka. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Samobor and Zagreb. In Molvice in Samobor every fifth inhabitant had the family name Žitković.
Prevalence
About 290 people with faimily name Žitković live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 290 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Samobor (50), Sveti Martin Pod Okicem (35), Molvice (15), and in Prijevor (10).
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.