Surname Puškarić in modern Croatia

Puškarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Ogulin. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ogulin and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 2000 people with faimily name Puškarić live in Croatia today, in 780 households. There were 1600 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 60 cities and 167 other places, mostly in Ogulin (260), Zagreb (245), Puskarici (150), Rijeka (55), and in Ivankovo in Vinkovci area (50).

Outside Croatia

At least 53 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (19), Australia (8), Austria (6), the United States (5), Canada (4), Switzerland (4), Belgium (2), the Netherlands (1), Spain (1), Argentina (1), France (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Puškarić (including: Puskaric , Puskarich , Pushkaric and Pushkarich ) is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Puskaric " is used by some 400 people in Germany , about 300 in the United States , and some 90 people in Australia. "Puskarich " is used by some 500 people in the United States and about 100 in Nepal. "Pushkaric " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Staša Puškarić, Mladen Puškarić, Vladimir Puškarić, Katica Puškarić, Mijo Puškarić, Ranka Puškarić, Kristijan Puškarić, Berislav Puškarić, Igor Puškarić, Mario Puškarić, Sanja Puškarić, Zvonimir Puškarić, Sonja Puškarić, Ana Puškarić, Dean Puškarić, Ivan Puškarić, Mate Puškarić, Željko Puškarić, Petar Puškarić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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