In Croatia, Nagel families are generally Croats (from the Island of Cres ), very rarely Rusyns (from Vukovar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Backa, Vojvodina and in Pula.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Nagel live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in only four naselja i to in Rovinj (<5), Vukovar (<5), Krapinske Toplice in Krapina area (<5), and in Porozina on the Island of Cres (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.