Jelic
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒʎɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jelic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common surname.
- HRCroatia1 in 1K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 2.1K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 4.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
4,191 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jelić in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jelic counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #56 | 4,191 | 1 in 1K | 4.2K | Jelić | 68 |
| RS Serbia | #127 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Jelić | 42 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #202 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Jelić | 12 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 250 | 1 in 8.4K | 250 | Jelic | 10 |
| US United States | — | 207 | 1 in 1.6M | 240 | Jelic | 59 |
| ME Montenegro | #103 | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Jelić | 10 |
4,191 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chris Jelicb. 1963USMajor League Baseball outfielder
- Vanessa Jelicb. 1981FRFrench handball player
- Matea Jelićb. 1997HRCroatian taekwondo practitioner
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 240 | #84,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 207 | #89,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 163 | #102,173 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Jelic?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒʎɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jelic have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Jelic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jelić.
- Where is Jelic most common?
- Jelic is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jelic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 4,191 people named Jelic in 2021, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Jelic compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Jelic is the 56th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jelic?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jelicThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jelic” — the 56th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.