Surname Puce in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Puce families are Croats (from Romania (Bosnia) ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Mostar area) and in Bosnian Krajina (Srbac area). In Selišta in Romania (Bosnia) every third inhabitant had the family name Puce.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Puce live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are only located in four Croatian cities and 6 other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Vinkovci (<10), Paruzevina (<5), Sesvete (<5), and in Makarska (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Puce (including: Puche , Putze , Puze , Puzzie , Pucce , Puzze and Puzzle ) is present in 40 countries worldwide. "Putze " is used by some 1000 people in Germany , about 300 in the United States , and small number of people in New Zealand. "Pucce " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Blaženka Puce, Branka Puce, Anđelka Puce, Ivko Puce, Branko Puce, Himzo Puce, Jasmin Puce, Slavko Puce, Christa Puce, Vlado Puce, Dinko Puce, Andrija Puce, Ivan Puce, Stanko Puce, Jure Puce, Ivica Puce, Nikola Puce, Stjepan Puce, Josip Puce

Mentions in sources

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.

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