In Croatia, Gutal families are Croats (from Osijek area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Gutal live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are only located in in one Croatian city and another small place , mostly in Cepin in Osijek area (<5) and Osijek (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.