In Croatia, Đurenec families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sveti Ivan Zelina and Zagreb. In Polonje in Sveti Ivan Zelina every fourtieth inhabitant had the family name Đurenec.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Đurenec live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, two cities and four other places, mostly in Polonje (<10), Selanec in Krizevci area (<10), Zagreb (<5), Sesvete (<5), and in Nespes (<5).