Čegec families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina. In Gornjaki in Vrbovec area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Čegec.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Čegec live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, threee cities and 18 other places, mostly in Marinovec Zelinski (20), Sveti Ivan Zelina (15), Zagreb (15), Rakovec in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (15), and in Hercegovac in Garesnica area (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Čegec is present in three countries on two continents.
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.