Beck families are Croats and they are mostly from Pozega. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Osijek.
Prevalence
About 90 people with faimily name Beck live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Osijek (25), Cepin in Osijek area (10), Opatovac in Ilok area (<10), and in Split (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.