Surname Vucelić in modern Croatia

Vucelić families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Ogulin , whereas often Croats (also from Ogulin ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ogulin and Rijeka.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Vucelić live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Rijeka (35), Zagreb (35), Karlovac (20), Ogulin (10), and in Donje Dubrave (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Vucelić (including: Vucelich , Vucelic and Vucelick ) is present in 11 countries on three continents. The family name "Vucelic " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in Russian Federation , and small number of people in the United States. "Vucelich " is used by some 100 people in the United States. "Vucelick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Boris Vucelić, Michael Vucelić, Vedran Vucelić, Rade Vucelić, Siniša Vucelić, Slobodan Vucelić, Jasenka Vucelić, Goran Vucelić, Saša Vucelić, Željko Vucelić, Suzana Vucelić, Zoran Vucelić, Jasminka Vucelić, Zlata Vucelić, Tatjana Vucelić, Miroslav Vucelić, Tihomir Vucelić, Damjan Vucelić, Nedeljko Vucelić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over sixty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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