Surname Pelaić.

  • Surname Pelaić in modern Croatia

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

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  • Prevalence

    About 200 people with faimily name Pelaić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
    They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Stankovci in Benkovac area (80), Zadar (35), Zagreb (25), Split (20), and in Vinkovci (15).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Pelaić is present in 7 countries on three continents.

  • Characteristic first names

    Ivan Pelaić, Marko Pelaić, Ante Pelaić, Rade Pelaić, Goran Pelaić, Tomislav Pelaić, Nada Pelaić, Josip Pelaić, Ernest Pelaić, Denis Pelaić, Luana Pelaić, Zdenka Pelaić, Tonino Pelaić, Marica Pelaić, Helena Pelaić, Dragan Pelaić, Bore Pelaić, Draženka Pelaić, Daria Pelaić

  • Last name Pelaić around the globe

    See the countries where surname Pelaić 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 few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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