Surname Pezelj in modern Croatia

Pezelj families are Croats and they are mostly from Gospic. According to some sources they are from Donji Dolac near Omis. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic and Zagreb. In places Smiljansko Polje and Smiljan in Gospic every ninth inhabitant had the family name Pezelj.

Prevalence

About 440 people with faimily name Pezelj live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 420 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 39 other places, mostly in Gospic (85), Zagreb (55), Split (50), Rijeka (30), and in Donji Dolac (25).

Outside Croatia

At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (4), Germany (2), the United States (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Pezelj (including: Pezely , Pezelli and Pezzelli ) is present in 16 countries on four continents. The family name "Pezelj " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in Argentina , and small number of people in the United States. "Pezely " is used by some 90 people in the United States and about 80 in Germany. "Pezzelli " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Pezelj, Dragan Pezelj, Dinko Pezelj, Đurđica Pezelj, Nikica Pezelj, Damir Pezelj, Nikola Pezelj, Emira Pezelj, Vilma Pezelj, Lukša Pezelj, Robert Pezelj, Vedran Pezelj, Siniša Pezelj, Igor Pezelj, Renato Pezelj, Snježana Pezelj, Željka Pezelj, Mario Pezelj, Ranko Pezelj

Mentions in sources

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

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