Kelemen families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec. According to some sources they are from Ugarske, rarely Hungarians from Osijek area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Zagreb. In Kamenica in Lepoglava every fifth inhabitant had the family name Kelemen.
Prevalence
About 700 people with faimily name Kelemen live in Croatia today, in 270 households. There were 730 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 40 cities and 76 other places, mostly in Zagreb (125), Varazdin (60), Gacice (40), Vinica in Ivanec area (35), and in Laslovo in Osijek area (25).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over fifty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.