In Croatia, Makale families are Croats (from Sibenik ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and Rijeka.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Makale live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only four naselja i to in Rijeka (<10), Zlarin (<10), Sibenik (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.