Surname Puhiera in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Puhiera families are Croats (from Dubrovnik ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and on the Island of Mljet.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Puhiera live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Dubrovnik (<10), Mokosica (<5), Mlini in Dubrovnik area (<5), and in Korita on the Island of Mljet (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Puhiera is present in four countries on four continents. The family name "Puhiera " is used by some 60 people in Nicaragua and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nino Puhiera, Marida Puhiera, Nada Puhiera, Nikola Puhiera, Maro Puhiera, Samuel Puhiera, Niko Puhiera, Anka Puhiera, Vladimir Puhiera, Frano Puhiera, Marija Puhiera, Daniela Puhiera, Rita Puhiera, Dinko Puhiera, Ane Puhiera, Kate Puhiera, Mare Puhiera, Nike Puhiera, Pavle Puhiera

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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