Paleka families are Croats and they are mostly from Zadar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and in Zadar area.
Prevalence
About 440 people with faimily name Paleka live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zadar (240), Zemunik Donji in Zadar area (80), Zagreb (30), Zerava (25), and in Rijeka (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.