Surname Grbelja.

  • Surname Grbelja in modern Croatia

    Grbelja families are Croats and they are mostly from Sibenik. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and in Backa, Vojvodina.

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  • Prevalence

    About 100 people with faimily name Grbelja live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
    They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and 6 other places, mostly in Sibenik (20), Split (15), Zaton (15), Zagreb (10), and in Vodice (10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Grbelja is present in five countries on three continents. The family name "Grbelja " is used by small number of people in the United States.

  • Characteristic first names

    Davor Grbelja, Jasminka Grbelja, Goran Grbelja, Neven Grbelja, Predrag Grbelja, Ante Grbelja, Josip Grbelja, Kristijan Grbelja, Dalibor Grbelja, Sanja Grbelja, Boris Grbelja, Nevena Grbelja, Alina Grbelja, Roko Grbelja, Ivana Grbelja, Tonći Grbelja, Miljenko Grbelja, Marko Grbelja, Janez Grbelja

  • Last name Grbelja around the globe

    See the countries where surname Grbelja is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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