Surname Puškadija in modern Croatia

Puškadija families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Novi Marof.

Prevalence

About 370 people with faimily name Puškadija live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 80 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 36 other places, mostly in Remetinec (115), Zagreb (35), Strmec Remetinecki (30), Novi Marof (25), and in Crnkovci in Belisce area (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Puškadija is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Zlatko Puškadija, Robert Puškadija, Marko Puškadija, Zvonimir Puškadija, Biserka Puškadija, Miljenko Puškadija, Miro Puškadija, Denis Puškadija, Mihajlo Puškadija, Franjo Puškadija, Milivoj Puškadija, Krešo Puškadija, Ljiljana Puškadija, Jadranka Puškadija, Đuro Puškadija, Vanja Puškadija, Mladen Puškadija, Ivana Puškadija, Dalibor Puškadija

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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