Surname Pleša in modern Croatia

Pleša families are Croats and they are mostly from Gospic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic area and in Zagreb. In Ramljani in Otocac every fifth inhabitant had the family name Pleša.

Prevalence

About 1400 people with faimily name Pleša live in Croatia today, in 580 households. There were 1200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 59 cities and 158 other places, mostly in Zagreb (285), Rijeka (45), Belisce (40), Otocac (35), and in Virovitica (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 26 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (9), Australia (7), Austria (5), Canada (2), Sweden (1), the United States (1), and to France (1).
Family name Pleša (including: Plesa , Plesha , Pleshka , Plessa , Plescha , Pleschak and Plessia ) is present in 35 countries worldwide. The family name "Plesa " is used by some 20000 people in Romania , about 700 in Spain , and some 500 people in the United States. "Plesha " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 200 in Ukraine , and small number of people in Russian Federation. "Plescha " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Krešimir Pleša, Dragutin Pleša, Siniša Pleša, Marijan Pleša, Mirjana Pleša, Tihomir Pleša, Velimir Pleša, Nikola Pleša, Dubravko Pleša, Sandra Pleša, Lana Pleša, Vjekoslava Pleša, Dalibor Pleša, Aleksandra Pleša, Željko Pleša, Igor Pleša, Tomica Pleša, Zoran Pleša, Neven Pleša

Mentions in sources

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

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