In Croatia, Pelinjak families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Ivanic-Grad. In Poljana in Vrbovec every hundredth inhabitant had the family name Pelinjak.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Pelinjak live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only five naselja i to in Poljana (<10), Sisak (<5), Lipnica in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (<5), and in Novoselec (<5) and Vezisce (<5) in Ivanic-Grad area.
Outside Croatia
Family name Pelinjak is present in this form only in Croatia.
