In Croatia, Kehler families are Croats (from Serbia ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Kraljevica.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Kehler live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in four Croatian cities only: in Zagreb (<10), Rijeka (<5), Kraljevica (<5), and in Mala Jazbina (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.