In Croatia, Kecelj families are Croats (from the Island of Vis ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Vis.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Kecelj live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Split (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1926 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.