In Croatia, Michelli families are Croats (from Bakar ).
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Michelli live in Croatia today, in one household only. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Krasica (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.