Jelovac families can be both Serbs and Croats (from Pazin area ), very rarely Bosniaks (from Herzegovina). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pula. In Gornji Lipnik in Cazins Region (Bosnia) every third inhabitant had the family name Jelovac.
Prevalence
About 190 people with faimily name Jelovac live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Pula (15), Split (10), Sibice (10), and in Rijeka (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.