In Croatia, Vinkler families are generally Croats (from Pakrac ), very rarely Serbs, and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pakrac and Osijek.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Vinkler live in Croatia today, in 16 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties and another small place , mostly in Osijek (10), Pakrac (<10), Prekopakra (<10), Rijeka (<10), and in Nova Gradiska (<5).
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.