Surname Plivelić in modern Croatia

Plivelić families are Croats and they are mostly from Slunj area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slunj area and in Slunj. In places Kestenje and Trnovi in Slunj area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Plivelić.

Prevalence

About 330 people with faimily name Plivelić live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 370 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 40 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Karlovac (25), Vodjinci in Vinkovci area (20), Ogulin (20), and in Sesvete (20).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (3) and the United States (1).
Family name Plivelić (including: Plivelic , Plivelich ) is present in 10 countries on three continents. The family name "Plivelic " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Canada. "Plivelich " is used by some 60 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Antun Plivelić, Željka Plivelić, Milan Plivelić, Predrag Plivelić, Franja Plivelić, Ivan Plivelić, Dražen Plivelić, Sabina Plivelić, Ivica Plivelić, Mirjana Plivelić, Bojan Plivelić, Darijo Plivelić, Irina Plivelić, Ivana Plivelić, Siniša Plivelić, Branko Plivelić, Mira Plivelić, Vesna Plivelić, Darko Plivelić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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