In Croatia, Puhak families are Croats (from Zapresic area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Zapresic area.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Puhak live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in two Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Zapresic (10), Prigorje Brdovecko in Zapresic area (<10), Vukovina (<5), and in Prudnice in Zapresic area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.