Surname Pavlica in modern Croatia

Pavlica families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Gospic , whereas often Croats (from Zadar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sisak. In Počitelj in Gospic every ninth inhabitant had the family name Pavlica.

Prevalence

About 300 people with faimily name Pavlica live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 660 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 38 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Rijeka (25), Sisak (20), Velika Gorica (15), and in Prvca (15).

Outside Croatia

At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (3), France (2), the United States (1), Germany (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Pavlica (including: Pawlica , Pawlitza , Pavlitza and Pawlicha ) is present in 29 countries worldwide. The family name "Pavlica " is used by some 1000 people in Czech Republic , about 900 in the United States , and some 100 people in Argentina. "Pavlitza " is used by few people in the United States. "Pawlica " is used by some 1000 people in Poland , about 70 in Czech Republic , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vesna Pavlica, Milutin Pavlica, Anri Pavlica, Mirjana Pavlica, Branko Pavlica, Miroslav Pavlica, Mile Pavlica, Lidija Pavlica, Doris Pavlica, Tamara Pavlica, Nenad Pavlica, Suzana Pavlica, Tatjana Pavlica, Rade Pavlica, Andriana Pavlica, Frane Pavlica, Mladen Pavlica, Vladimir Pavlica, Ljiljana Pavlica

Mentions in sources

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

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