In Croatia, Cucek families are Croats (from Postojna, Slovenija ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Banja Luka Region, Bosnia (Banja Luka area) and in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanski Novi area). In Kuljani in Bosanian Posavina every nintieth inhabitant had the family name Cucek.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Cucek live in Croatia today, in two households only. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Pozega (<5) and Petrinja (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.