Surname Pavelić in modern Croatia

Pavelić families are Croats and they are mostly from Gospic. According to some sources they are from Krivi Put near Senj or Dalmatia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Gospic. In Korjenovo in Cazins Region (Bosnia) every second inhabitant had the family name Pavelić.

Prevalence

About 1600 people with faimily name Pavelić live in Croatia today, in 740 households. There were 1500 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 67 cities and 129 other places, mostly in Zagreb (455), Gospic (70), Slavonski Brod (65), Rijeka (60), and in Novi Vinodolski (45).

Outside Croatia

At least 40 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (11), France (7), the United States (6), Australia (4), Germany (4), Sweden (3), Switzerland (3), Austria (1), and to Brazil (1).
Family name Pavelić (including: Pavelic , Pavelich , Pavelick , Pawelic , Pawelitsch and Pawelich ) is present in 27 countries on four continents. The family name "Pavelic " is used by some 600 people in Germany , about 200 in Austria , and some 200 people in the United States. "Pavelich " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 200 in Canada , and small number of people in Chile. "Pawelic " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Poland.

Characteristic first names

Jurica Pavelić, Ljubomir Pavelić, Zlatko Pavelić, Krešimir Pavelić, Dinka Pavelić, Martin Pavelić, Lidija Pavelić, Marica Pavelić, Tomislav Pavelić, Davor Pavelić, Boris Pavelić, Mirjana Pavelić, Zoran Pavelić, Zvonimir Pavelić, Ivon Pavelić, Dujo Pavelić, Željko Pavelić, Vedran Pavelić, Dean Pavelić

Mentions in sources

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.

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