Krčelić families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic area. According to some sources they are from Krbave. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sisak. In places Žlebec Pušćanski and Žlebec Gorički in Zapresic area every second inhabitant had the family name Krčelić.
Prevalence
About 590 people with faimily name Krčelić live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 720 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 75 other places, mostly in Zagreb (125), Sisak (40), Zapresic (40), Prigorje Brdovecko in Zapresic area (30), and in Strmec in Samobor area (30).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.