In Croatia, Žilih families are Croats (from Vinkovci ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slavonski Brod.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Žilih live in Croatia today, in three households only. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Zagreb (<5) and Slavonski Brod (<5).
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.