In Croatia, Mihel families are Croats (from Delnice ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Lučice in Delnice every fiftieth inhabitant had the family name Mihel.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Mihel live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only four naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Delnice (<10), Lucice (<10), and in Velika Gorica (<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.