In Croatia, Bet families are generally Croats (from Bjelovar area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar area and in Djurdjevac area. In Botinac in Bjelovar area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Bet.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Bet live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, two cities and 6 other places, mostly in Bjelovar (<10), Virje in Djurdjevac area (<10), in Babotok (<10) and Kapela (<5) in Bjelovar area, and in Miholjanec in Djurdjevac area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.
