Surname Kefelja in modern Croatia

Kefelja families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and in Varazdin area.

Prevalence

About 240 people with faimily name Kefelja live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Sveti Ilija in Varazdin area (55), Varazdin (35), Beretinec in Varazdin area (30), Zagreb (20), and in Ledinec in Varazdin area (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kefelja is present in three countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Zvonimir Kefelja, Ljiljana Kefelja, Robert Kefelja, Jasminka Kefelja, Mladen Kefelja, Dragica Kefelja, Josip Kefelja, August Kefelja, Stjepan Kefelja, Miloš Kefelja, Branko Kefelja, Zoran Kefelja, Ivica Kefelja, Snježana Kefelja, Monika Kefelja, Ivanka Kefelja, Manuela Kefelja, Nedeljko Kefelja, Miljenko Kefelja

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

Do you know more?

If you want to preserve a family story or memory of a person with this surname:

Preserve memories