Surname Milas in modern Croatia

Milas families are Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotsko and in Imotski area. In Zmijavci in Imotski area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Milas.

Prevalence

About 1100 people with faimily name Milas live in Croatia today, in 420 households. There were 370 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 44 cities and 59 other places, mostly in Zagreb (265), Zmijavci in Imotski area (205), Split (115), Osijek (105), and in Drum in Imotski area (30).

Outside Croatia

Family name Milas (including: Melas , Millas , Milash , Milhas , Millias , Milass , Mielas , Milasz and Mylas ) is present in 80 countries worldwide. The family name "Milas " is used by some 2000 people in Algeria , about 1000 in the United States , and some 1000 people in Romania. "Mielas " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Millias " is used by some 60 people in the United States , small number in Zimbabwe , and small number of people in Morocco.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Milas, Marko Milas, Branko Milas, Josip Milas, Zdeslav Milas, Cvitan Milas, Goran Milas, Milan Milas, Dinko Milas, Vesna Milas, Zrinka Milas, Zdenko Milas, Krunoslav Milas, Nirvana Milas, Želimir Milas, Marina Milas, Mijo Milas, Zoran Milas, Darko Milas

Mentions in sources

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

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