Surname Pole in modern Croatia

Pole families are Croats and they are mostly from north Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in North Herzegovina (Jablanica area) and in Vukovar.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Pole live in Croatia today, in 30 households.
They are located and 6 other Croatian places, mostly in Opatovac in Ilok area (30), Zagreb (20), Ilok (15), Vukovar (<10), and in Sarengrad (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pole (including: Poole , Polle , Pohle , Polee , Pollye , Pollie , Polhe , Phole and Poleh ) is present in 129 countries worldwide. The family name "Pole " is used by some 1000 people in Tanzania , about 1000 in the United States , and some 1000 people in Papua New Guinea. "Polee " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 60 in the Netherlands , and small number of people in Germany. "Poole " is used by some 60000 people in the United States , about 9000 in Great Britain , and some 5000 people in South Africa.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Pole, Ilija Pole, Lidija Pole, Tomislav Pole, Stipo Pole, Igor Pole, Manuela Pole, Dario Pole, Mijo Pole, Marko Pole, Andrija Pole, Dragana Pole, Jolanka Pole, Mirjana Pole, Mile Pole, Viktorija Pole, Andreja Pole, Kristina Pole, Viktor Pole

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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