In Croatia, Jelicich families are Croats by relative majority (from Buje ), equally Italians (also from Buje ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Buje.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Jelicich live in Croatia today, in one household only. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Kaldanija (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.