In Croatia, Jerele families are Croats (from Krizevci ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krizevci.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Jerele 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 located in two Croatian cities only, in Sveta Helena (<5) and Karlovac (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.