In Croatia, Kitel families are Croats (from Novi Marof area ).
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Kitel live in Croatia today, in two households only. They are located in only two naselja i to in Peteranec in Koprivnica area (<5) and Deklesanec in Novi Marof area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.