In Croatia, Hlapec families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Hlapec live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only four naselja i to in Zagreb (10), Gornje Psarjevo (<10), Karlovac (<5), and in Breznica Nasicka in Nasice area (<5).
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.