Surname Pavlaković in modern Croatia

Pavlaković families are Croats and they are mostly from Jastrebarsko. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac. In Cvetković in Jastrebarsko every tenth inhabitant had the family name Pavlaković.

Prevalence

About 310 people with faimily name Pavlaković live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 380 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 23 cities and 34 other places, mostly in Cvetkovic (60), Zagreb (45), Karlovac (35), Rijeka (10), and in Belajske Poljice in Duga Resa area (10).

Outside Croatia

At least 18 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (6), Canada (5), Australia (4), Germany (2), and to France (1).
Family name Pavlaković (including: Pavlakovic , Pavlakovich ) is present in 16 countries on four continents. The family name "Pavlakovic " is used by some 100 people in Canada , about 70 in the United States , and small number of people in Slovakia. "Pavlakovich " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Hungary.

Characteristic first names

Sanja Pavlaković, Miljenko Pavlaković, Valentino Pavlaković, Zlatko Pavlaković, Vesna Pavlaković, Željko Pavlaković, Mirjana Pavlaković, Igor Pavlaković, Gordana Pavlaković, Damir Pavlaković, Vjeran Pavlaković, Darko Pavlaković, Veljko Pavlaković, Milivoj Pavlaković, Ivica Pavlaković, Miroslav Pavlaković, Katica Pavlaković, Dražen Pavlaković, Iva Pavlaković

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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