Surname Bjelan in modern Croatia

Bjelan families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Knin area , whereas often Croats (Slavonski Brod). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Knin area and in Zagreb. In Orlić in Knin area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Bjelan.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Bjelan live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Orlic in Knin area (15), Zagreb (10), Trnjani in Slavonski Brod area (<10), Vrpolje in Djakovo area (<10), and in Split (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), the United States (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Bjelan (including: Bielan , Byelan ) is present in 16 countries worldwide. The family name "Bjelan " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Australia , small number of people in the United States. "Byelan " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Bielan " is used by some 600 people in Poland , about 100 in Germany , and some 100 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Jadranka Bjelan, Ninoslav Bjelan, Mirjana Bjelan, Nenad Bjelan, Damjan Bjelan, Ilija Bjelan, Branko Bjelan, Aleksandar Bjelan, Marijana Bjelan, Boris Bjelan, Maja Bjelan, Željko Bjelan, Ivana Bjelan, Mirko Bjelan, Verica Bjelan, Nađa Bjelan, Ivona Bjelan, Anka Bjelan, Marija Bjelan

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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