Surname Šelendić in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 210 people with faimily name Šelendić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 250 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (180), Sesvete (10), Kosovecko in Zlatar area (<10), Velika Gorica (<5), and in Mirca on the Island of Brac (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), the United States (2), and to Switzerland (2).
Family name Šelendić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Josip Šelendić, Zoran Šelendić, Kristijan Šelendić, Zdenka Šelendić, Goran Šelendić, Mario Šelendić, Željko Šelendić, Robert Šelendić, Romana Šelendić, Krunoslav Šelendić, Štefica Šelendić, Mladen Šelendić, Denis Šelendić, Srđan Šelendić, Tomislav Šelendić, Ana Šelendić, Ankica Šelendić, Martina Šelendić, Sandro Šelendić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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