Miletić
family name
Miletić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милетић, pronounced [mǐletitɕ]; plural: Miletići, Милетићи) is a Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian surname, and is one of the common surnames in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
It derives from personal name Mileta, cognate of the English name Milius. The suffix ić is a diminutive designation, or descendant designation. Thus the last name can be translated as Mileta's son.
There are several families in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia who carry this last name. The most numerous and the most prominent of the Miletići are found in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in Croatia.
It is one of the most common surnames in two counties of Croatia.
People with last name Miletić:
Boris Miletić (born 1975), Croatian politician and mayor of Pula
Branko Miletić, Yugoslav linguist, professor of University of Belgrade (cs:Branko Miletić)
Ljubica Miletić (1948–2020), Serbian poet, translator and essayist
Lyubomir Miletich (1863–1937), Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, brother of Svetozar Miletić
Marinko Miletić (born 1980), German football player of Croatian origin currently playing for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
Miloje Miletić (born 1953), Lt.
“Miletić” enters the record as family name. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Miletić, family and name can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6851638. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1948, 2020 and 1863.
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