Horvatinec families are Croats and they are mostly from Zagreb. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sisak. In Mala Gorica in Petrinja every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Horvatinec.
Prevalence
About 100 people with faimily name Horvatinec live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Gornji Stupnik in Samobor area (50), Zagreb (15), Mala Gorica (<10), Petrinja (<10), and in Strmec in Samobor area (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Horvatinec is present in two countries on two continents. The family name "Horvatinec " is used by few people in the United States.
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.