In Croatia, Moškatelo families are Croats (from the Island of Hvar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and on the Island of Hvar. In Dol on the Island of Hvar every tenth inhabitant had the family name Moškatelo.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Moškatelo live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties and two other places, mostly in Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar (40), Split (15), Zagreb (10), Sokolovac in Koprivnica area (<5), and in Zapresic (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.