Debelić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Rab. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Rab and in Rijeka.
Prevalence
About 440 people with faimily name Debelić live in Croatia today, in 200 households. There were 340 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 26 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Banjol (100) and Barbat na Rabu (80) on the Island of Rab, Rijeka (45), Zagreb (35), and in Cerna in Zupanja area (25).
Outside Croatia
Family name Debelić (including: Debelic , Debelich ) is present in 11 countries on four continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1938 in source Phone Book - Zagreb 1938.