Surname Paleško in modern Croatia

Paleško families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj area and in Sinj.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Paleško live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in threee Croatian counties and 5 other places, mostly in Grab in Sinj area (20), Split (15), Sinj (10), Ruda in Sinj area (10), and in Glavice (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Paleško (including: Palesko , Pallesco , Paleshko and Paleschenko ) is present in 10 countries on three continents. The family name "Palesko " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Pallesco " is used by some 400 people in the Philippines , small number in France , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Tanja Paleško, Anita Paleško, Tomislav Paleško, Mate Paleško, Zdravko Paleško, Denis Paleško, Dušan Paleško, Kata Paleško, Zoran Paleško, Ivanka Paleško, Vlade Paleško, Damir Paleško, Josipa Paleško, Branko Paleško, Nediljka Paleško, Roberta Paleško, Josip Paleško, Anđelka Paleško, Iva Paleško

Mentions in sources

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.

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