Britvec families are Croats and they are mostly from Jastrebarsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Jastrebarsko area and in Zagreb. In places Crna Draga , Novo Selo Lasinjsko and Dvoranci in Jastrebarsko area every third inhabitant had the family name Britvec.
Prevalence
About 270 people with faimily name Britvec live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 310 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 30 other places, mostly in Crna Draga in Jastrebarsko area (60), Zagreb (50), and in Dvoranci (25), Donja Kupcina (25) and Lasinja (20) in Jastrebarsko area.
Outside Croatia
At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (4) and the United States (1). Family name Britvec is present in three countries on three continents. The family name "Britvec " is used by some 60 people in the United States.
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.
