Surname Lelas.

  • Surname Lelas in modern Croatia

    Lelas families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrlika. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrlika and Split. In Kosore in Vrlika every third inhabitant had the family name Lelas.

    Created with kartograph 0.8.7 and Raphaël 2.2.0OmišZagrebSplitKosoreGlavina GornjaBosnia and HerzegovinaSlovenijaHungaryBosnia and HerzegovinaSlovenijaHungaryVrlika

  • Prevalence

    About 480 people with faimily name Lelas live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
    They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Omis (110), Zagreb (90), Split (80), Kosore (65), and in Glavina Gornja (25).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Lelas is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Lelas " is used by some 300 people in Poland , about 60 in the United States , and small number of people in Chile. "Lelash " is used by small number of people in the United States.

  • Characteristic first names

    Tanja Lelas, Petar Lelas, Joško Lelas, Božo Lelas, Srđan Lelas, Antonio Lelas, Doris Lelas, Tihomir Lelas, Neven Lelas, Đani Lelas, Karmela Lelas, Zlatko Lelas, Adam Lelas, Jasmina Lelas, Martina Lelas, Vesela Lelas, Ivan Lelas, Jagoda Lelas, Davor Lelas

  • Last name Lelas around the globe

    See the countries where surname Lelas is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1742 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

  • Do you know more?

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

    Preserve memories