In Croatia, Čelec families are Croats (from Klanjec ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zabok and Garesnica.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Čelec live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Martinisce (20), Zagreb (<10), Pakrac (<10), Lucelnica Tomasevecka (<10), and in Sesvete (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.