In Croatia, Paulovich families are Croats (from Porec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pazin and in Porec area.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Paulovich live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are only located in in one Croatian city and another small place , mostly in Visnjan in Porec area (<5) and Porec (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over a hundred times, the first time 1750 in source 18th Century Census.