Surname Pili in modern Croatia

Pili families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Zapresic area.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Pili live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and 10 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), in Oplaznik (15), Marija Gorica (<10) and Celine Goricke (<10) in Zapresic area, and in Grabric in Vrbovec area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least one family with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Pili (including: Pilli , Phili , Pilih , Pilie , Pielli , Ppili , Pielie , Pieli and Pilii ) is present in 102 countries worldwide. "Pilie " is used by some 200 people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Indonesia. "Pieli " is used by few people in Canada and few people in the United States. "Pielli " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 50 in Italy , and small number of people in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Jadranko Pili, Željko Pili, Ljubica Pili, Robert Pili, Stela Pili, Ivana Pili, Damir Pili, Krešimir Pili, Franjo Pili, Stjepan Pili, Stanko Pili, Marijan Pili, Ivica Pili, Nada Pili, Branko Pili, Danijela Pili, Mario Pili, Igor Pili, Neno Pili

Mentions in sources

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

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