Surname Gledić in modern Croatia

Gledić families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Glina area , whereas often Croats (from Jastrebarsko ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic area and in Glina area. In Lipovo Polje in Gospic area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Gledić.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Gledić live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Bovic in Glina area (15), Lipovo Polje in Gospic area (10), Zagreb (10), Karlovac (<10), and in Crikvenica (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Switzerland (2), France (1), Canada (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Gledić (including: Gledic , Gleditsch and Gledich ) is present in 13 countries on four continents. "Gledich " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Gleditsch " is used by some 200 people in Norway , about 80 in the United States , and small number of people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Dražen Gledić, Jasenka Gledić, Nada Gledić, Dejan Gledić, Dušanka Gledić, Jasmina Gledić, Loredana Gledić, Aleksandra Gledić, Dario Gledić, Tihomir Gledić, Milka Gledić, Nenad Gledić, Miran Gledić, Slobodan Gledić, Andrea Gledić, Mile Gledić, Bojan Gledić, Miodrag Gledić, Zoran Gledić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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