Surname Dehlić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Dehlić families are Croats (from Ozalj area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ozalj area and in Slavonski Brod. In Mala Paka in Ozalj area every third inhabitant had the family name Dehlić.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Dehlić live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in only five Croatian places: in Lipnik (<10) and Mala Paka (<10) in Ozalj area, Slavonski Brod (<10), Osijek (<5), and in Stankovci in Ozalj area (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Sweden (1) and the United States (1).
Family name Dehlić (including: Dehlic , Dehlitsch and Dehlich ) is present in five countries on two continents. The family name "Dehlic " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Canada. "Dehlich " is used by few people in the United States. "Dehlitsch " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Dehlić, Vlado Dehlić, Mirjana Dehlić, Ivanka Dehlić, Ivan Dehlić, Marija Dehlić, Viktorija Dehlić, Katarina Dehlić, Damir Dehlić, Boris Dehlić, Franjo Dehlić, Milka Dehlić, Kata Dehlić, Petar Dehlić, Ferdo Dehlić, Dragica Dehlić, Sofija Dehlić, Josip Dehlić, Ljubomir Dehlić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over fifty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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