Surname Pupovac in modern Croatia

Pupovac families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Benkovac , whereas often Croats (Zadar area). According to some sources they are from Istria. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Benkovac and Zadar. In Bilišane in Obrovac every seventh inhabitant had the family name Pupovac.

Prevalence

About 410 people with faimily name Pupovac live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 520 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Zadar (60), Rijeka (55), Zagreb (30), Brsadin in Vukovar area (25), and in Privlaka in Zadar area (20).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), Australia (3), the United Kingdom (1), Switzerland (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Pupovac is present in 16 countries on four continents. The family name "Pupovac " is used by some 200 people in Australia , about 90 in the United States , and some 60 people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Milorad Pupovac, Slobodan Pupovac, Mate Pupovac, Darko Pupovac, Dejan Pupovac, Jovan Pupovac, Zoran Pupovac, Maja Pupovac, Gojko Pupovac, Dijana Pupovac, Saša Pupovac, Davor Pupovac, Mladen Pupovac, Alen Pupovac, Zorka Pupovac, Živko Pupovac, Nikola Pupovac, Čedo Pupovac, Mirta Pupovac

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1928 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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