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