Bobovec families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Koprivnica and in Djurdjevac area.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Bobovec live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Gola in Djurdjevac area (20), Zagreb (20), Koprivnica (<10), Vinkovci (<10), and in Molve in Djurdjevac area (<10).
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.