Kekelj families are Croats and they are mostly from Zagreb. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Bjelovar.
Prevalence
About 100 people with faimily name Kekelj live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, four cities and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (110), Donja Lomnica (<10), Semovci in Djurdjevac area (<5), Bjelovar (<5), and in Krk on the Island of Krk (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1927 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.