Gorupec families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Donja Stubica. In places Marija Magdalena and Gornja Pušća in Zapresic area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Gorupec.
Prevalence
About 200 people with faimily name Gorupec live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 240 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Oroslavje (40), Zagreb (25), Hrusevec (25), Donja Stubica (15), and in Gornja Pusca in Zapresic area (15).
Outside Croatia
Family name Gorupec is present in three countries on two continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.