In Croatia, Baljević families are Croats (from Dubrovnik area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and in Dubrovnik area. In Pločice in Dubrovnik area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Baljević.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Baljević live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only two Croatian places: in Plocice in Dubrovnik area (<10) and Dubrovnik (<5).
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.