Surname Palunko in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Palunko families are generally Croats (from Vodice ), very rarely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and Pula.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Palunko live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Sipanska Luka (<10), Split (<5), Vodice (<5), Fazana (<5), and in Dubrovnik (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Palunko is present in three countries.

Characteristic first names

Branimir Palunko, Nikola Palunko, Božo Palunko, Ljubica Palunko, Loreta Palunko, Vinko Palunko, Vice Palunko, Sonja Palunko, Vesna Palunko, Katica Palunko, Ivo Palunko, Miroslav Palunko, Ivana Palunko, Ivona Palunko, Mihovila Palunko, Ivan Palunko, Marija Palunko, Ana Palunko, Anđa Palunko

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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