In Croatia, Rubelli families are predominantly Croats (from Dubrovnik ), rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and Rijeka.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Rubelli live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in four Croatian cities only: in Zagreb (<5), Osijek (<5), Pula (<5), and in Dubrovnik (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Rubelli is present in 6 countries on four continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.