Štrukelj families are Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Zagreb. In Ralutinac in Bosnian Krajina every fifth inhabitant had the family name Štrukelj.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Štrukelj live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and 8 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Cakovec (15), Sesvete (<10), Lucko (<10), and in Nedelisce in Cakovec area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.