Surname Pavlić in modern Croatia

Pavlić families are Croats and they are mostly from Ogulin area. According to some sources they are from Radosevica near Vares (Bosnia). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Radoševići in Middle Bosnia every second inhabitant had the family name Pavlić.

Prevalence

About 2200 people with faimily name Pavlić live in Croatia today, in 970 households. There were 2800 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 78 cities and 232 other places, mostly in Zagreb (520), Rijeka (95), Karlovac (75), Djurdjenovac in Nasice area (65), and in Osijek (60).

Outside Croatia

At least 43 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (18), the United States (8), Australia (8), France (5), Sweden (1), Argentina (1), Austria (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Pavlić (including: Pavlic , Pavlich , Pavlick , Pavlichuk , Pavlichko , Pavlics , Pawlich , Pawlitsch , Pawlicz and Pavlicz ) is present in 45 countries worldwide. The family name "Pavlic " is used by some 1000 people in the United States , about 600 in Germany , and some 400 people in Moldova. "Pavlich " is used by some 700 people in the United States , about 200 in Ukraine , and some 100 people in Peru. "Pawlich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mile Pavlić, Davor Pavlić, Andrea Pavlić, Ivana Pavlić, Vedran Pavlić, Richard Pavlić, Mladen Pavlić, Željko Pavlić, Miro Pavlić, Kornelija Pavlić, Gordana Pavlić, Marko Pavlić, Dražen Pavlić, Rajko Pavlić, Nevenko Pavlić, Predrag Pavlić, Zdravko Pavlić, Damir Pavlić, Saša Pavlić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over eighty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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