In Croatia, Carli families are Croats (from Pazin area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Split.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Carli live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Split (<5), Rijeka (<5), and in Savudrija (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over a hundred times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.