In Croatia, Kotal families are Croats (from Osijek ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and Pleternica.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Kotal live in Croatia today, in three households only. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Osijek (<10) and Velika Gorica (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.