Čule families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Drnis area. According to some sources they are from sela Cule near Mostar, Bosnia, and very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Mostar area) and in Drnis area. In Čule in Herzegovina every second inhabitant had the family name Čule.
Prevalence
About 350 people with faimily name Čule live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 240 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Zagreb (85), Split (65), Solin (55), Vinkovci (25), and in Rijeka (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.