Politeo families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Brac. According to some sources they are from Greece. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and on the Island of Brac. In Novo Selo on the Island of Brac every fourth inhabitant had the family name Politeo.
Prevalence
About 100 people with faimily name Politeo live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 0 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Split (50), Novo Selo on the Island of Brac (30), Zagreb (15), Velika Gorica (<10), and in Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Politeo is present in 8 countries on three continents. The family name "Politeo " is used by some 60 people in Italy , about 50 in Chile , and about 50 in the United States.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.
