Surname Pavrlišak in modern Croatia

Pavrlišak families are Croats and they are mostly from Oroslavje area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Kutina. In Pila in Oroslavje area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Pavrlišak.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Pavrlišak live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Voloder in Kutina area (15), Pila in Oroslavje area (15), Donja Stubica (10), Petrinja (<10), and in Kutina (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pavrlišak is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Siniša Pavrlišak, Branka Pavrlišak, Sandra Pavrlišak, Juraj Pavrlišak, Krešimir Pavrlišak, Valentin Pavrlišak, Petar Pavrlišak, Krunoslav Pavrlišak, Božidar Pavrlišak, Petra Pavrlišak, Stjepan Pavrlišak, Jasna Pavrlišak, Željko Pavrlišak, Tomislav Pavrlišak, Ljiljana Pavrlišak, Marko Pavrlišak, Ljubica Pavrlišak, Lidija Pavrlišak, Dionizije Pavrlišak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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