In Croatia, Paušina families are Croats (from Peljesac Peninsula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on Peljesac Peninsula.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Paušina live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Trpanj on the Peljesac peninsula (<5).
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.