In Croatia, Cirkvenec families are Croats (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 40 people with faimily name Cirkvenec live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 8 other places, mostly in Koprivnica (15), in Novigrad Podravski (15) and Plavsinac (<5) in Djurdjevac area, Bjelovar (<5), and in Semovci in Djurdjevac area (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Cirkvenec is present in this form only in Croatia.
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.