In Croatia, Ćelović families are predominantly Croats (from Pula area ), rarely Slovenes (from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Ćelović live in Croatia today, in three households only. They are located in only four naselja i to in Rijeka (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Medulin (<5) and Banjole (<5) in Pula area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.