Surname Pilj in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pilj families are Croats (from Valpovo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Valpovo area and in Osijek. In Novaki Bizovački in Valpovo area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Pilj.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Pilj live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Split (15), Brodjanci in Valpovo area (10), Metkovic (<5), and in Novaki Bizovacki in Valpovo area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pilj (including: Pilli , Pili , Pilly , Pilih , Pilie , Pily , Pielie , Pilii and Piely ) is present in 105 countries worldwide. The family name "Pilj " is used by small number of people in the United States. "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.

Characteristic first names

Marin Pilj, Jure Pilj, Ivan Pilj, Vesna Pilj, Zdravko Pilj, Boško Pilj, Luka Pilj, Stipica Pilj, Marina Pilj, Gordana Pilj, Merica Pilj, Andrea Pilj, Tajana Pilj, Ana Pilj, Miroslav Pilj, Vinka Pilj, Stjepan Pilj, Cvijeta Pilj, Roberto Pilj

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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