Pelić families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Vinodolski area. According to some sources they are from Crikvenice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Crikvenica.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Pelić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Crikvenica (10), Rijeka (10), Split (<10), and in Umag (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.