Tarle families are Croats and they are mostly from Drnis. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis and Zagreb. In Velušić in Drnis every fourth inhabitant had the family name Tarle.
Prevalence
About 240 people with faimily name Tarle live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Jezevic (20), Velusic (15), Vodice (15), and in Drnis (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.