In Croatia, Graberec families are Croats (from Dugo Selo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dugo Selo and Zagreb. In Prozorje in Dugo Selo every seventh inhabitant had the family name Graberec.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Graberec live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in only five naselja i to in Dugo Selo (20), Hrebinec in Dugo Selo area (<10), Prozorje (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Bregana (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Graberec 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 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.