Surname Bijelić in modern Croatia

Bijelić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Banja Luka area (Bosnia), often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Banja Luka Region, Bosnia (Banja Luka area) and in Karlovac. In Šimići in Banja Luka Region (Bosnia) every tenth inhabitant had the family name Bijelić.

Prevalence

About 1600 people with faimily name Bijelić live in Croatia today, in 740 households. There were 1400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 76 cities and 163 other places, mostly in Zagreb (285), Karlovac (95), Bribir (85), Rijeka (60), and in Petrinja (60).

Outside Croatia

At least 39 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (16), the United States (8), Switzerland (4), France (4), Austria (3), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (1), Australia (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Bijelić (including: Bijelic , Bijelich and Biyelich ) is present in 28 countries worldwide. The family name "Bijelic " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 200 in Germany , and some 100 people in Bangladesh.

Characteristic first names

Borislav Bijelić, Rajko Bijelić, Nataša Bijelić, Srećko Bijelić, Dragan Bijelić, Jasmina Bijelić, Ivo Bijelić, Mišo Bijelić, Marjan Bijelić, Mile Bijelić, Lidia Bijelić, Dražen Bijelić, Lidija Bijelić, Siniša Bijelić, Viktor Bijelić, Damir Bijelić, Krste Bijelić, Klaudio Bijelić, Sergej Bijelić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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