Surname Vellich in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Vellich families are Italians (from Buje area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Buje area. In Velići in Buje area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Vellich.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Vellich live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in one Croatian city only, in Buje (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vellich is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Giuseppe Vellich, Maria Vellich, Antonio Vellich, Caterina Vellich, Elda Vellich, Giorgio Vellich, Giovanni Vellich, Giuseppina Vellich, Giustina Vellich, Luigi Vellich, Marija Vellich, Matteo Vellich, Michele Vellich

Mentions in sources

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

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