In Croatia, Žaler families are Croats (from Garesnica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Garesnica and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Žaler live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Samoborski Otok (<5), Garesnica (<5), Zadar (<5), and in Samobor (<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.