Surname Pleš in modern Croatia

Pleš families are Croats and they are mostly from Slunj. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slunj and Zagreb. In places Čamerovac and Gornji Lađevac in Slunj every ninth inhabitant had the family name Pleš.

Prevalence

About 220 people with faimily name Pleš live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Karlovac (35), Zagreb (35), Camerovac (15), Sesvete (15), and in Luka (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pleš (including: Ples , Pless , Plesh , Plesch , Plesse , Plesha , Plessy , Plessl , Plesz and Plees ) is present in 57 countries worldwide. "Plesh " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 60 in Russian Federation , and small number of people in Canada. "Plesch " is used by some 500 people in Germany , about 100 in Russian Federation , and small number of people in the United States. "Pless " is used by some 4000 people in the United States , about 1000 in Germany , and some 700 people in Madagascar.

Characteristic first names

Drago Pleš, Petar Pleš, Ante Pleš, Željko Pleš, Bernardica Pleš, Zvonko Pleš, Davor Pleš, Tomislav Pleš, Antonio Pleš, Marija Pleš, Goran Pleš, Josip Pleš, Blanka Pleš, Slavko Pleš, Smilja Pleš, Ksenija Pleš, Milan Pleš, Danijel Pleš, Siniša Pleš

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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