About 20 people with faimily name Paljuk live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in only five naselja i to in Bicko Selo (10) and Oprisavci (<10) in Slavonski Brod area, Zagreb (<5), Velika Gorica (<5), and in Buje (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1924 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.