Surname Pleše in modern Croatia

Pleše families are Croats and they are mostly from Delnice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka.

Prevalence

About 930 people with faimily name Pleše live in Croatia today, in 440 households. There were 1100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 43 cities and 78 other places, mostly in Zagreb (230), Delnice (180), Rijeka (70), Popovaca in Kutina area (65), and in Kupjak in Delnice area (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 26 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (15), Australia (5), Germany (3), Canada (2), and to France (1).
Family name Pleše (including: Plese , Plesse , Pleshe , Plescher , Plessie , Plescheev , Pleschev , Plesche and Plesce ) is present in 31 countries worldwide. The family name "Plese " is used by some 1000 people in the United States , about 200 in Brazil , and some 60 people in Canada. "Pleshe " is used by some 100 people in the United States. "Plesche " is used by small number of people in Austria , small number in Germany , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ozren Pleše, Robert Pleše, Branko Pleše, Iva Pleše, Zorislav Pleše, Katarina Pleše, Marijan Pleše, Zlatko Pleše, Mladen Pleše, Bernardo Pleše, Mira Pleše, Danijela Pleše, Jasna Pleše, Sanjin Pleše, Nada Pleše, Ana Pleše, Mirjana Pleše, Eliana Pleše, Ivana Pleše

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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