Surname Pauletić in modern Croatia

Pauletić families are Croats and they are mostly from Pazin. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Pazin. In Barat in Rovinj area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Pauletić.

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Pauletić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are only located in in 12 Croatian cities and 26 other places, mostly in Rovinj (35), Pula (35), Pazin (15), Split (<10), and in Buici (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), Argentina (2), Sweden (2), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), Switzerland (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Pauletić (including: Pauletich , Pauletic ) is present in 7 countries on three continents. The family name "Pauletic " is used by small number of people in Italy and small number in the United States. "Pauletich " is used by some 200 people in Argentina , about 200 in the United States , and small number of people in Italy.

Characteristic first names

Robert Pauletić, Melita Pauletić, Željko Pauletić, Nadija Pauletić, Jadranko Pauletić, Damir Pauletić, Dalibor Pauletić, Hrvoje Pauletić, Marino Pauletić, Adrijana Pauletić, David Pauletić, Ivan Pauletić, Ante Pauletić, Marija Pauletić, Zoran Pauletić, Dražen Pauletić, Klaudio Pauletić, Martina Pauletić, Suzana Pauletić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1729 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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