In Croatia, Badjinec families are Croats (from Vrbovec ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovec area and in Vrbovec. In Vrbovečki Pavlovec in Vrbovec every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Badjinec.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Badjinec live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in only four Croatian places: in Hrastelnica (<5), Vrbovecki Pavlovec (<5), Gaj (<5), and in Prilesje (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Badjinec is present in this form only in Croatia.
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.