In Croatia, Belc families are Croats (from Klanjec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Klanjec area. In Pušća in Klanjec area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Belc.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Belc live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Zagreb (25), Skalic Zagorski in Pregrada area (<10), and in Velika Gorica (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1691 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.