Surname Vukelja in modern Croatia

Vukelja families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Ogulin , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ogulin and Karlovac. In Mile in Middle Bosnia every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Vukelja.

Prevalence

About 310 people with faimily name Vukelja live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 32 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Ogulin (65), Karlovac (35), Split (30), Brodarica (25), and in Zagreb (25).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (2), Switzerland (2), Germany (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Vukelja is present in 12 countries worldwide. The family name "Vukelja " is used by some 70 people in Panama , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Poland. "Vucelja " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Tihomir Vukelja, Spomenka Vukelja, Miro Vukelja, Dinko Vukelja, Vladimir Vukelja, Stanislav Vukelja, Nikola Vukelja, Damir Vukelja, Daniel Vukelja, Ilija Vukelja, Gordana Vukelja, Adriana Vukelja, Anita Vukelja, Darko Vukelja, Tomislav Vukelja, Ivica Vukelja, Marijo Vukelja, Aida Vukelja, Ankica Vukelja

Mentions in sources

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

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