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Ilić

Ilić. Attested in Croatia, Slovenia, United States of America, France, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Italy, Denmark, borne by about 6,774 people in the registers this map holds.

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

IlikIlicz

What Wikidata says this name is

Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.

  • Serbian · Slovene the language of the name

    Which is not where a family is from. A Polish surname can be borne by people whose forebears never saw Poland, and often is.

  • Read about it on Wikipedia ↗ an article, with its own sources

Q112748033 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.

What Wiktionary says this name is

Copied from the surname template on Wiktionary, not worked out here, and not from its etymology prose. Anyone may edit it; the page and the revision it was read at are linked below.

  • Serbo-Croatian what the English entry says it is from
  • English · Serbo-Croatian recorded as a surname in these languages

    A language here is the language of the NAME, not a country a family came from — the same caveat the Wikidata section carries, and worth repeating rather than assumed read.

Ilić on Wiktionary ↗ — read at revision 91703196. Text from Wiktionary, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

It is also the name of a place

1 place drawn, the largest being İliçİliç — 5,003
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • İliç Turkey pop. 5,003

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 9 countries: Croatia, Slovenia, United States of America, France, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Italy, DenmarkDenmark — attested, not countedItaly — 13 peoplePoland — 21 peopleBelgium — 35 peopleSpain — 101 peopleFrance — 434 peopleUnited States of America — 858 peopleSlovenia — 1,405 peopleCroatia — 3,907 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. A hollow ring is attested but not counted — Denmark publishes which surnames exist and not how many carry each, and a family archive finds a name without counting heads. Sizing those by a number nobody published would invent it. Blank is not absence. This draws the 9 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.
Belgium, by commune. 35 people in 6 of Belgium's 565 communes, counted by Statbel. The biggest is Seraing with 8. This is the only country here that can be drawn this way — every other register counts a country and stops, so a blank elsewhere is a gap in what states publish, not in the name.
6 places drawn, the largest being Seraing, Aarlen, Dilbeek, Rebecq, Erquelinnes, HerstalHerstal — 5Erquelinnes — 5Rebecq — 5Dilbeek — 5Aarlen — 7Seraing — 8

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Croatia

3,907 Borne — a state counted them — Names and surnames in the Republic of Croatia, 2011 Population Census (DZS).

Names and surnames in the Republic of Croatia, 2011 Population Census (DZS) answers questions rather than publishing a list. This name was asked about because the atlas already holds it elsewhere — a name absent here may simply never have been asked about, not absent from Croatia.

Whose archive to write to

35 of 5,047 volumes held for Croatia overlap the 1940s, 1950s and 1970s — the decades Ilić is attested here. None is known to name Ilić: a volume overlapping these years is a document from the right place and time, not a confirmed match. Worth an afternoon.

Slovenia

1,405 Borne — a state counted them — Family names, Slovenia, 2026 (SURS tables 05X1015S–05X1018S).

Whose archive to write to

443 of 1,585 volumes held for Slovenia overlap the 1920s and 1980s — the decades Ilić is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Ilić. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records. See everything this atlas holds for Slovenia →

United States of America

858 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census; Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.

Whose archive to write to

4,105 of 528,875 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1970s — the decades Ilić is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Ilić. The commonest kinds: Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Church and parish registers, Cemeteries and burials. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →

France

434 Borne — a state counted them — Fichier des noms de famille 1891–2000 (INSEE, fichier national).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Ilić in France, so it cannot narrow France's 1,513 volumes by date — see France's own page for all of it.

Spain

101 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Ilić in Spain, so it cannot narrow Spain's 35,936 volumes by date — see Spain's own page for all of it.

Belgium

35 Borne — a state counted them — Family names by municipality, 1 January 2026 (Statbel, TA_POP_LST_2026).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Ilić in Belgium, so it cannot narrow Belgium's 24,426 volumes by date — see Belgium's own page for all of it.

Poland

21 Borne — a state counted them — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL (z uwzględnieniem osób zmarłych).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Ilić in Poland, so it cannot narrow Poland's 15,686 volumes by date — see Poland's own page for all of it.

Italy

13 Borne — a state counted them — Italian comuni publishing their residents' surnames as open data, indexed by the national catalogue dati.gov.it..

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Ilić in Italy, so it cannot narrow Italy's 1,288,913 volumes by date — see Italy's own page for all of it.

Denmark

Borne — a state counted them — Navne registreret i Danmark, January 2020 (Danmarks Statistik, republished by Digitaliseringsstyrelsen).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Ilić in Denmark, so it cannot narrow Denmark's 4,099 volumes by date — see Denmark's own page for all of it.

When it was being born, in France

INSEE counts births by surname and decade from the état civil, 1891 to 2000 — the only dated evidence in this dataset. A name that starts at zero and climbs arrived; a name that falls to nothing left, died out, or emigrated, and the decade it stops is the decade to stop searching. It counts births registered in France, so a family that emigrated in 1900 simply stops appearing, which is information rather than a defect. This name's first French births fall in 1911–1920 and its last in 1991–2000.

  • 1891–1900 —
  • 1901–1910 —
  • 1911–1920 2
  • 1921–1930 3
  • 1931–1940 —
  • 1941–1950 11
  • 1951–1960 16
  • 1961–1970 59
  • 1971–1980 141
  • 1981–1990 107
  • 1991–2000 95

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

Croatia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Southern Istria 9 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic → …
  • The Kvarner — Senj, Vinodol, Rijeka 8 eras Frankopan counts of Krk and Vinodol → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Dalmatia 10 eras Hungarian–Croatian crown → Republic of Venice → Austria → French Illyria → …
  • The Imotski frontier 7 eras Ottoman Empire → Republic of Venice → Austria → French Illyria → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
  • The Military Frontier — Vojna krajina 8 eras Habsburg military frontier, under Graz and Vienna → Habsburg → Croatia-Slavonia, within Hungary → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Yugoslavia → …
Slovenia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
United States of America
France
Belgium

Regions are also drawn in 3 other countries where this name is attested, further down the register's own list. The order here is how many people a register counted, so the countries above are the ones the name most belongs to.

No record region is drawn yet for Spain — which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about that country.

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