Surname Puh in modern Croatia

Puh families are Croats and they are mostly from Labin area. According to some sources they are from Austria. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Krapina. In Peresiji in Labin area every third inhabitant had the family name Puh.

Prevalence

About 280 people with faimily name Puh live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 37 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Pula (30), Vidovec Krapinski (25), Petrovsko in Krapina area (20), and in Bobovje (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Puh (including: Puech , Puche , Puch , Puth , Puchi , Pucha , Pucho , Pueth and Pueh ) is present in 103 countries worldwide. "Pueth " is used by few people in the United States. "Pueh " is used by few people in the United States. "Pucha " is used by some 2000 people in Ecuador , about 90 in Poland , and some 80 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Aleksandar Puh, Mare Puh, Ljiljana Puh, Maroje Puh, Miro Puh, Marinella Puh, Domagoj Puh, Mirko Puh, Ivan Puh, Stijepo Puh, Ivica Puh, Milan Puh, Davor Puh, Slaven Puh, Marijo Puh, Robert Puh, Nikica Puh, Mirijana Puh, Valentina Puh

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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