Jelenčić families are Croats and they are mostly from Virovitica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zabok. In Pavlovec Zabočki in Zabok every eighth inhabitant had the family name Jelenčić.
Prevalence
About 460 people with faimily name Jelenčić live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 550 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 65 other places, mostly in Zagreb (85), Pavlovec Zabocki (25), Zabok (20), Slatina (15), and in Vrhovac (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.