Surname Brnelić in modern Croatia

Brnelić families are Croats and they are mostly from Rijeka area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Rijeka area. In Brnelići in Rijeka area every second inhabitant had the family name Brnelić.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Brnelić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in two Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Rijeka (65), in Drazice (10) and Jelenje (10) in Rijeka area, Zminj in Pazin area (10), and in Brnelici in Rijeka area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Brnelić is present in four countries.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Brnelić, Arsen Brnelić, Nadija Brnelić, Marko Brnelić, Danijela Brnelić, Miljenko Brnelić, Borislav Brnelić, Josip Brnelić, Jelena Brnelić, Milvana Brnelić, Dalibor Brnelić, Boris Brnelić, Sebastijan Brnelić, Karmen Brnelić, Smiljana Brnelić, Hrvoje Brnelić, Rudolf Brnelić, Zlatko Brnelić, Zoran Brnelić

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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