In Croatia, Černelić families are Croats (from Pazin area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Černelić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Bjelovar (<10), Duga Resa (<10), Rijeka (<5), and in Sesvete (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.