Deželić families are Croats and they are mostly from Jastrebarsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Jastrebarsko area. In Palančani in Cazma every eighth inhabitant had the family name Deželić.
Prevalence
About 160 people with faimily name Deželić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are only located in in 12 Croatian cities and 16 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Bratina in Jastrebarsko area (25), Rijeka (15), Cres on the Island of Cres (15), and in Palancani (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.