In Croatia, Jelići families are Albanians (from Kosovo ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Kosovo.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Jelići live in Croatia today, in two households only. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Zagreb (<5) and Zapresic (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.