Surname Piškulić in modern Croatia

Piškulić families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Vinodolski. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska and Novi Vinodolski. U Gradu Novom Vinodolskom every sixtieth inhabitant had the family name Piškulić.

Prevalence

About 190 people with faimily name Piškulić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Novi Vinodolski (60), Nova Gradiska (40), Zagreb (30), Rijeka (15), and in Resetari in Nova Gradiska area (10).

Outside Croatia

At least 13 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (11), Australia (1), and to Argentina (1).
Family name Piškulić (including: Piskulich , Piskulic , Pisculich and Piskulick ) is present in 7 countries on four continents. The family name "Piskulic " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Piskulich " is used by some 80 people in Peru , about 80 in Argentina , and some 50 people in the United States. "Piskulick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Maja Piškulić, Aleksandar Piškulić, Damira Piškulić, Velimir Piškulić, Katarine Piškulić, Marija Piškulić, Marina Piškulić, Iva Piškulić, Ksenija Piškulić, Domagoj Piškulić, Darinka Piškulić, Franjo Piškulić, Martin Piškulić, Dražen Piškulić, Tihana Piškulić, Ljubo Piškulić, Ivan Piškulić, Devleta Piškulić, Anđa Piškulić

Mentions in sources

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

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