In Croatia, Beclin families are Croats (from Vrbovec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Vrbovec area.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Beclin live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Vrbovec (<10), Vrbovecki Pavlovec (<10), Donji Dubovec (<10), and in Cvetkovic (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Beclin (including: Bechlin , Bächlin and Bezlin ) is present in 11 countries worldwide.
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.