In Croatia, Michel families are Croats (from Zagreb ).
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Michel live in Croatia today, in three households only. They are located in threee Croatian counties, in one city and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (<5), Pakostane in Biograd na moru area (<5), and in Funtana in Rovinj area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.