In Croatia, Hapavel families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar area and in Djurdjevac area.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Hapavel live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only five naselja i to in Virje in Djurdjevac area (15), Bjelovar (<10), Djurdjevac (<5), and in Gornji Mosti (<5) and Sredice Gornje (<5) in Bjelovar area.
Outside Croatia
Family name Hapavel is present in this form only in Croatia.
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.