Only a few people with faimily name Pocel live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Stara Baska on the Island of Krk (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.