In Croatia, Pukalo families are mainly Croats (from Garesnica ), less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Garesnica and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Pukalo live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only threee Croatian places: in Mali Pasijan (<10), Petina (<5), and in Mala Kosnica (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.