Surname Radelić in modern Croatia

Radelić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area , rarely Serbs and Roms. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Djurdjevac area.

Prevalence

About 690 people with faimily name Radelić live in Croatia today, in 280 households. There were 440 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 41 other places, mostly in Pitomaca (240) and Klostar Podravski (75) in Djurdjevac area, Zagreb (50), Bulinac in Bjelovar area (45), and in Djurdjevac (40).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (4) and Australia (1).
Family name Radelić (including: Radelic , Radelich and Radellich ) is present in 7 countries on three continents. "Radelich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željka Radelić, Srđan Radelić, Zdenko Radelić, Milenko Radelić, Drago Radelić, Dražen Radelić, Marijana Radelić, Slobodan Radelić, Stipe Radelić, Nataša Radelić, Srećko Radelić, Milka Radelić, Stevo Radelić, Darko Radelić, Vince Radelić, Sandokan Radelić, Eleonora Radelić, Radmila Radelić, Marinko Radelić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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