Surname Veličan.

  • Surname Veličan in modern Croatia

    Veličan families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Zagreb. In Babotok in Bjelovar area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Veličan.

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  • Prevalence

    About 200 people with faimily name Veličan live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (55), Zagreb (40), Sesvete (25), Babotok in Bjelovar area (10), and in Bjelovar (<10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Veličan (including: Velican , Velichan ) is present in 18 countries worldwide.

  • Characteristic first names

    Boris Veličan, Tajana Veličan, Franjo Veličan, Antun Veličan, Višnja Veličan, Mato Veličan, Ivan Veličan, Alojzije Veličan, Dragica Veličan, Milan Veličan, Ana Veličan, Ljerka Veličan, Petar Veličan, Valentina Veličan, Jasminka Veličan, Ivica Veličan, Tomislav Veličan, Nada Veličan, Goran Veličan

  • Last name Veličan around the globe

    See the countries where surname Veličan is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

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

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