Surname Pielich in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pielich families are Croats (from Vrbovsko area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovsko area and in Zagreb. In Bitorajci in Vrbovsko area every second inhabitant had the family name Pielich.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Pielich live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in only threee Croatian places: in Zagreb (<5), Bitorajci in Vrbovsko area (<5), and in Tusilovic (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pielich is present in 10 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Damir Pielich, Gordana Pielich, Franca Pielich, Vera Pielich, Daniela Pielich, Mara Pielich, Slavko Pielich, Bruno Pielich, Anton Pielich, Da Pielich, Danijela Pielich, Marica Pielich

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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