Bastalec families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina. In Blaškovec in Sveti Ivan Zelina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Bastalec.
Prevalence
About 140 people with faimily name Bastalec live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are only located in in 7 Croatian cities and 20 other places, mostly in Blaskovec (20), Sesvete (15), Zagreb (10), Blazevdol (10), and in Popovaca in Kutina area (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Bastalec 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 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.