In Croatia, Eliaš families are Croats by relative majority, equally Slovaks (from Ilok ).
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Eliaš live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Pcelic in Virovitica area (<5), Ilok (<5), and in Suhopolje in Virovitica area (<5).
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.