In Croatia, Čelhar families are Croats (from Kraljevica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Čelhar live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Lovran in Opatija area (<5), Smrika (<5), and in Zadar (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.