In Croatia, Ciceli families are Croats (from Prelog area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Prelog area.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Ciceli live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located and four other Croatian places, mostly in Dekanovec in Prelog area (15), Zagreb (15), Kotoriba in Prelog area (<5), Belica in Cakovec area (<5), and in Cakovec (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.