In Croatia, Fotivec families are Croats (from Zabok ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zabok and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Fotivec live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and four other places, mostly in Dubrava Zabocka (15), Spickovina (10), Luzan (10), Zagreb (10), and in Velika Gorica (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Fotivec 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 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.