In Croatia, Bučec families are generally Croats (from Zagreb ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Middle Bosnia (Zenica area).
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Bučec live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Sesvete (<5), and in Djelekovec in Koprivnica area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.