In Croatia, Ahec families are Croats (from Pregrada area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pregrada.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Ahec live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (15), Klostar Ivanic in Ivanic-Grad area (<10), Grohot in Pregrada area (<10), Visnjevec (<5), and in Ivanic-Grad (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.