Hodalj families are Croats and they are mostly from Petrinja. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Petrinja and Sisak.
Prevalence
About 130 people with faimily name Hodalj live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Gora (40), Greda (15), Petrinja (10), Sisak (10), and in Zagreb (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.