Surname Jelkić in modern Croatia

Jelkić families are Croats and they are mostly from Belisce. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Belisce and in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanska Gradiska area). In Vedro Polje in Hrvatska Kostajnica area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Jelkić.

Prevalence

About 160 people with faimily name Jelkić live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Belisce (25), Slavonski Brod (20), Zagreb (15), Bistrinci (15), and in Donja Bistra in Oroslavje area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Jelkić (including: Jelcic , Jelkic , Yelcich , Jelcick , Jelcich , Yelkich and Yelcick ) is present in 19 countries on four continents. "Yelkich " is used by few people in the United States. "Jelcic " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 70 in Chile , and some 50 people in Australia. "Jelcick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vladimir Jelkić, Dražen Jelkić, Zvonko Jelkić, Ankica Jelkić, Ivan Jelkić, Kristijan Jelkić, Dinko Jelkić, Siniša Jelkić, Stjepan Jelkić, Mladen Jelkić, Željko Jelkić, Damir Jelkić, Danijel Jelkić, Lejla Jelkić, Vlatko Jelkić, Marica Jelkić, Dejan Jelkić, Saša Jelkić, Franjo Jelkić

Mentions in sources

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.

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