Borovčak families are Croats and they are mostly from Zabok. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zabok and Zagreb. In Kotarice in Zabok area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Borovčak.
Prevalence
About 250 people with faimily name Borovčak live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Zabok (75), Zagreb (30), Kotarice in Zabok area (30), Slatina (10), and in Zlatar (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.