In Croatia, Podešva families are Croats (from Bosnian Krajina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Bosnian Krajina (Celinac area).
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Podešva live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.