Find out how popular the last name Vukovich is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Vukovich.

Vukovich, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Vukovich surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Vukovich in America

Vukovich is the 29171st most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Vukovich surname appeared 812 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Vukovich.

We can also compare 2010 data for Vukovich to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Vukovich

The surname Vukovich is of Croatian origin and dates back to the 9th century AD. It is derived from the Slavic word "vuk" meaning wolf, and was likely given as a nickname to someone who displayed wolf-like characteristics or lived in an area known for its wolves.

The name first appeared in records from the medieval Croatian kingdom of Dalmatia, which encompassed parts of modern-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Early variations of the spelling included Vukovic, Vukovych, and Vukowich.

One of the earliest known bearers of the name was Vukoslav Vukovich, a Croatian nobleman who lived in the 12th century. He was a member of the powerful Vukovic family, who ruled over the area of modern-day Imotski in southern Croatia.

In the 14th century, the name appeared in the records of the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik), where a merchant named Nikola Vukovich was mentioned in trade documents from 1372. This suggests that the name had spread to coastal areas of Croatia by this time.

During the Ottoman wars in the Balkans, several notable Croatian military leaders bore the surname Vukovich. One such figure was Nikola Vukovich, a captain in the Croatian military who fought against the Ottomans in the late 16th century. He was renowned for his bravery and tactical skills in defending the city of Sinj from Ottoman siege in 1592.

As Croatians immigrated to other parts of Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries, the surname Vukovich also spread to these regions. One notable bearer of the name was Ivan Vukovich (1853-1936), a Croatian-American writer and journalist who published works in both Croatian and English.

Other notable people with the surname Vukovich include Ante Vukovich (1900-1987), a Croatian-American baseball player who played for the Chicago White Sox in the 1920s, and Dragutin Vukovich (1914-1989), a Croatian artist known for his landscape paintings.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Vukovich

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Vukovich.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Vukovich was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Vukovich has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Vukovich was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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