Šelimber families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Virovitica.
Prevalence
About 90 people with faimily name Šelimber live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located and 9 other Croatian places, mostly in Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (55), Djurdjevac (<10), Zagreb (<10), Koprivnica (<5), and in Spisic Bukovica in Virovitica area (<5).
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.