Surname Žutelija in modern Croatia

Žutelija families are Croats and they are mostly from Benkovac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Benkovac and Zagreb. In Rodaljice in Benkovac every tenth inhabitant had the family name Žutelija.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Žutelija live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Rijeka (25), Zadar (<10), Benkovac (<10), and in Biograd na moru (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Žutelija is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Žutelija, Željko Žutelija, Danijel Žutelija, Blaže Žutelija, Iva Žutelija, Milan Žutelija, Igor Žutelija, Miroslav Žutelija, Biljana Žutelija, Alen Žutelija, Zorka Žutelija, Sanja Žutelija, Nikolina Žutelija, Goran Žutelija, Kornelija Žutelija, Marko Žutelija, Ante Žutelija, Branka Žutelija, Davorka Žutelija

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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