About 10 people with faimily name Battel live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Pula (<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.