Surname Pušćak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pušćak families are Croats (from Jastrebarsko area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Jastrebarsko area and in Bjelovar. In Donja Purgarija in Jastrebarsko area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Pušćak.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Pušćak live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Donja Purgarija (<10) and Goli Vrh (<5) in Jastrebarsko area, Bjelovar (<5), and in Samobor (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pušćak (including: Puschak , Puscak , Pushchak and Pusczak ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. "Puschak " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 100 in Ukraine , and small number of people in Russian Federation. "Pushchak " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Ukraine. "Pusczak " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Sandra Pušćak, Iva Pušćak, Dragica Pušćak, Mladen Pušćak, Mirjana Pušćak, Tomo Pušćak, Stjepan Pušćak, Zvonimir Pušćak, Ignac Pušćak, Nadica Pušćak, Branko Pušćak, Sanja Pušćak, Roza Pušćak, Agata Pušćak, Franjo Pušćak, Slava Pušćak, Ljubica Pušćak, Ana Pušćak, Mirko Pušćak

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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