Surname Telišman in modern Croatia

Telišman families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Samobor. In Farkaševec Samoborski in Samobor every ninth inhabitant had the family name Telišman.

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Telišman live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are only located in in 7 Croatian cities and 19 other places, mostly in Samobor (55), Zagreb (40), Farkasevec Samoborski (20), Klokovec in Krapina area (20), and in Slatina (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Telišman (including: Telisman , Thelisman ) is present in 6 countries on three continents. The family name "Telisman " is used by some 70 people in the United States , small number in Australia , and small number of people in Canada. "Thelisman " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Spomenka Telišman, Tihomir Telišman, Branko Telišman, Ivan Telišman, Miroslav Telišman, Goran Telišman, Boris Telišman, Tomislav Telišman, Ivica Telišman, Marija Telišman, Anica Telišman, Nevenka Telišman, Valerija Telišman, Krunoslav Telišman, Marijo Telišman, Slavko Telišman, Franjo Telišman, Božo Telišman, Stjepan Telišman

Mentions in sources

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

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