Surname Puklin in modern Croatia

Puklin families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zlatar and Zagreb. In places Gornja Selnica and Belec in Zlatar every fifth inhabitant had the family name Puklin.

Prevalence

About 240 people with faimily name Puklin live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 23 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Gornja Selnica (50), Belec (25), Jarmina in Vinkovci area (10), and in Rijeka (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Puklin (including: Puclin , Pukhlin ) is present in 10 countries on three continents. The family name "Puklin " is used by some 70 people in the United States and small number in Russian Federation.

Characteristic first names

Florijan Puklin, Marko Puklin, Ines Puklin, Goran Puklin, Tatjana Puklin, Mladen Puklin, Lovorka Puklin, Tihomir Puklin, Zlatko Puklin, Oliver Puklin, Dragica Puklin, Suzana Puklin, Hrvoje Puklin, Tinček Puklin, Krešimir Puklin, Aida Puklin, Dušan Puklin, Stjepan Puklin, Srebrenka Puklin

Mentions in sources

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.

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