Surname Bešlić in modern Croatia

Bešlić families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Posusje area) and in Split. In places Zagorje and Rastovača in Herzegovina every fourth inhabitant had the family name Bešlić.

Prevalence

About 1600 people with faimily name Bešlić live in Croatia today, in 600 households. There were 690 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 56 cities and 141 other places, mostly in Zagreb (250), Split (200), Sesvete (85), Sinj (60), and in Podstrana in Solin area (55).

Outside Croatia

At least 20 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (13), Austria (2), the United States (2), Australia (2), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Bešlić (including: Beslic , Besslich , Beslich and Beshlich ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. The family name "Beslic " is used by some 400 people in Germany , about 300 in the United States , and some 100 people in France.

Characteristic first names

Marko Bešlić, Milan Bešlić, Vesna Bešlić, Željko Bešlić, Hrvoje Bešlić, Anita Bešlić, Ivan Bešlić, Zdenko Bešlić, Branko Bešlić, Ana Bešlić, Mira Bešlić, Dražen Bešlić, Marinko Bešlić, Zdravko Bešlić, Sandra Bešlić, Josip Bešlić, Stanko Bešlić, Darinka Bešlić, Anto Bešlić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1750 in source 18th Century Census.

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