In Croatia, Puja families are predominantly Croats (from Pula area ), rarely Italians (also from Pula area ), and very rarely Bosniaks (again from Pula area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Varazdin.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Puja live in Croatia today, in 9 households. 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 Peroj in Pula area (10), Varazdin (<10), Fazana (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1927 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.