Surname Drčelić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Drčelić families are almost entirely Croats (from Slavonski Brod area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slavonski Brod and in Slavonski Brod area.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Drčelić live in Croatia today, in 14 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and four other places, mostly in Vranovci (10) and Bukovlje (<10) in Slavonski Brod area, Zagreb (<10), Zadar (<5), and in Sesvete (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Drčelić is present in three countries.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Drčelić, Marica Drčelić, Matija Drčelić, Nada Drčelić, Đuro Drčelić, Martina Drčelić, Darko Drčelić, Ada Drčelić, Antun Drčelić, Snežana Drčelić, Slavko Drčelić, Iva Drčelić, Josip Drčelić, Nenad Drčelić, Smiljana Drčelić, Davor Drčelić, Nikolina Drčelić, Marija Drčelić, Stjepan Drčelić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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