Surname Peruško in modern Croatia

Peruško families are Croats and they are mostly from Pula area. According to some sources they are from Konavle (Vitaljina). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Pula area. In places Peruški and Šegotići in Pula area every second inhabitant had the family name Peruško.

Prevalence

About 660 people with faimily name Peruško live in Croatia today, in 270 households. There were 630 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Pula (260), Peruski in Pula area (145), Zagreb (55), and in Vodnjan (20) and Segotici (20) in Pula area.

Outside Croatia

At least 17 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (8), Australia (2), Argentina (2), the United Kingdom (2), Canada (2), and to France (1).
Family name Peruško (including: Perusko , Perushko and Perusco ) is present in 12 countries on four continents. The family name "Perusko " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ticijan Peruško, Uroš Peruško, Ivana Peruško, Mladen Peruško, Milan Peruško, Mario Peruško, Davor Peruško, Miro Peruško, Edvard Peruško, Tatjana Peruško, Adriana Peruško, Mauricio Peruško, Bruno Peruško, Damir Peruško, Tanja Peruško, Igor Peruško, Robert Peruško, Alen Peruško, Valdi Peruško

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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