Surname Kelava in modern Croatia

Kelava families are Croats and they are mostly from western Bosnia (Rosko polje). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Western Bosnia (Tomislavgrad area) and in Western Bosnia (Livno area). In places Vojkovići and Dobro in Western Bosnia every third inhabitant had the family name Kelava.

Prevalence

About 1400 people with faimily name Kelava live in Croatia today, in 510 households. There were 240 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 62 cities and 110 other places, mostly in Zagreb (305), Split (85), Sinj (70), Sesvete (55), and in Vinkovci (50).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kelava (including: Cielava , Kelawa , Chelava and Celava ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. "Celava " is used by few people in the United States. "Chelava " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nataša Kelava, Ivana Kelava, Jelena Kelava, Marijo Kelava, Filip Kelava, Verica Kelava, Mladen Kelava, Zvonimir Kelava, Dragan Kelava, Marijan Kelava, Ivica Kelava, Goran Kelava, Mila Kelava, Ivan Kelava, Mate Kelava, Vinka Kelava, Antun Kelava, Ante Kelava, Drago Kelava

Mentions in sources

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

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