Surname Jelaš.

  • Surname Jelaš in modern Croatia

    Jelaš families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrgorac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Banja Luka Region, Bosnia (Banja Luka area) and in Vrgorac. In Dragljane in Vrgorac every fifth inhabitant had the family name Jelaš.

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  • Prevalence

    About 340 people with faimily name Jelaš live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 45 other places, mostly in Makarska (35), in Popovaca (25) and Voloder (25) in Kutina area, Split (20), and in Metkovic (15).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Jelaš (including: Jelas , Jelassi , Yelas , Yelash , Jelash , Yellas , Jelass and Ielash ) is present in 38 countries worldwide. "Yelas " is used by small number of people in New Zealand , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Australia.

  • Characteristic first names

    Danijel Jelaš, Filip Jelaš, Bruno Jelaš, Igor Jelaš, Vera Jelaš, Mirela Jelaš, Fani Jelaš, Đurđa Jelaš, Nikola Jelaš, Zoran Jelaš, Sanja Jelaš, Blaženka Jelaš, Mladenka Jelaš, Eva Jelaš, Dražan Jelaš, Pejo Jelaš, Jasmina Jelaš, Joško Jelaš, Duško Jelaš

  • Last name Jelaš around the globe

    See the countries where surname Jelaš 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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