In Croatia, Brulja families are almost entirely Croats (from Ogulin ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ogulin and Pakrac. In Hajdine in Vrbovsko every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Brulja.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Brulja live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and two other places, mostly in Rijeka (<10), Karlovac (<5), Zagreb (<5), Novska (<5), and in Hreljin Ogulinski (<5).