Štimec families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area , barely Slovenes. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin.
Prevalence
About 150 people with faimily name Štimec live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 20 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Cakovec (15), Sesvete (10), Varazdin (<10), and in Djurdjevac (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.