Surname Kelemović in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kelemović families are almost entirely Croats (from Pleternica ), barely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pleternica. In Mihaljevići in Pleternica every third inhabitant had the family name Kelemović.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Kelemović live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 7 other places, mostly in Frkljevci (15), Zagreb (<10), Slavonski Brod (<10), Makarska (<10), and in Brdjani (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kelemović is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Renata Kelemović, Šimun Kelemović, Božidar Kelemović, Zoran Kelemović, Darko Kelemović, Hrvoje Kelemović, Robertina Kelemović, Alen Kelemović, Tomo Kelemović, Drago Kelemović, Svjetlana Kelemović, Ljiljana Kelemović, Slavica Kelemović, Marina Kelemović, Dragutin Kelemović, Stjepan Kelemović, Vladimir Kelemović, Katica Kelemović, Ladislav Kelemović

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.

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