In Croatia, Pauli families are almost entirely Croats (from Karlovac ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Pauli live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and four other places, mostly in Karlovac (50), Zagreb (<10), Novaki Petrovinski (<5), Duga Resa (<5), and in Vodostaj (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned about one hundred times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.