Surname Pudjak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pudjak families are Croats (from Karlovac ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Pudjak live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only threee naselja i to in Sesvete (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Karlovac (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pudjak (including: Pudiak , Pudlyak and Pudyak ) is present in 9 countries on two continents. "Pudiak " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Radojka Pudjak, Đurđa Pudjak, Ivica Pudjak, Marija Pudjak, Mara Pudjak, Barbara Pudjak, Josip Pudjak, Milka Pudjak, Dragica Pudjak, Barica Pudjak, Bara Pudjak, Marica Pudjak, Anka Pudjak, Branko Pudjak, Ignac Pudjak, Ivan Pudjak, Jakob Pudjak, Marije Pudjak, Mica Pudjak

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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