Twenty Most frequent Croatian surnames

familySome family names in a rich Croatian heritage are considerably more frequent then others. Here you can find twenty most frequent surnames according to the latest available data.

For each surname we give few historic and geographical data. We also give possible English transliteration. Numbers in brackets represent frequency of each surname within Croatian population of roughly 4,3 million (as of 2008, estimated).

1. Horvat /horvat/ (22.225)2. Kovačević /kovachevich/ (15835)
3. Babić /babich/ (13.150)4. Marić /marich/ (11.617)
5. Novak /nowak/ (11.396)6. Jurić /jurich/ (11.356)
7. Kovačić /kovachich/ (11.171)8. Vuković /vukovich/ (10.582)
9. Knežević /knezhevich/ (10.554)10. Marković /markovich/ (10.074)
11. Petrović /petrovich/ (9.957)12. Matić /matich/ (9.960)
13. Tomić /tomich/ (9.538)14. Kovač /kovach/ (8.997)
15. Pavlović /pavlovich/ (8.759)16. Božić /bozhich/ (8.258)
17. Blažević /blazhevich/ (8.152)18. Grgić /grgich/ (8.010)
19. Pavić /pavich/ (7.538)20. Radić /radich/ (7.406)