In Croatia, Veličić families are Croats (from Rijeka area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Veličić live in Croatia today, in two households only. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Podhum in Rijeka area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.