About 20 people with faimily name Knehtl live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Sveti Urban in Mursko Sredisce area (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Knehtl is present in 10 countries on three continents. "Knechtl " is used by some 100 people in Austria , about 80 in Czech Republic , and small number of people in the United States.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.