Surname Veljača in modern Croatia

Veljača families are Croats and they are mostly from Kastela area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Veljača live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Kastel Stari (70), Zagreb (30), Split (20), Kastel Stafilic (10), and in Kastel Novi (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Veljača is present in 9 countries worldwide. The family name "Veljaca " is used by small number of people in South Africa , small number in Switzerland , and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivica Veljača, Jelena Veljača, Andreja Veljača, Romina Veljača, Vlado Veljača, Blaženka Veljača, Mirjana Veljača, Davor Veljača, Vedran Veljača, Andrea Veljača, Vlatka Veljača, Ivan Veljača, Vojko Veljača, Jelica Veljača, Mira Veljača, Marija Veljača, Goran Veljača, Olgica Veljača, Bože Veljača

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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