Špelić families are Croats and they are mostly from Slunj. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slunj and Pakrac. In Lumbardenik in Slunj every fifth inhabitant had the family name Špelić.
Prevalence
About 270 people with faimily name Špelić live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Lumbardenik (40), Pakrac (20), Kriz in Ivanic-Grad area (20), Pula (15), and in Umag (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.