Surname Jelača in modern Croatia

Jelača families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Lipik , often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Split. In Gornja Suvaja in Cazins Region (Bosnia) every second inhabitant had the family name Jelača.

Prevalence

About 500 people with faimily name Jelača live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 540 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 37 cities and 41 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Split (75), Rijeka (65), Gospic (20), and in Ivanic-Grad (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Jelača (including: Jelaca , Yelaca and Yelacha ) is present in 15 countries on four continents. The family name "Jelaca " is used by some 50 people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Australia. "Yelaca " is used by few people in the United States. "Yelacha " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Miljenko Jelača, Dijana Jelača, Nenad Jelača, Sonja Jelača, Božidar Jelača, Davor Jelača, Zvonko Jelača, Žaklina Jelača, Ivan Jelača, Marinko Jelača, Amir Jelača, Miroslav Jelača, Christiana Jelača, Smiljana Jelača, Višnja Jelača, Dejan Jelača, Stana Jelača, Branislav Jelača, Zoran Jelača

Mentions in sources

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

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