In Croatia, Hotovec families are Croats (from Pozega area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pozega area and in Nova Gradiska.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Hotovec live in Croatia today, in 10 households. They are located in 6 Croatian counties and threee other places, mostly in Srednji Lipovac in Pozega area (15), Gornja Vrba in Slavonski Brod area (<5), Pozega (<5), Nova Gradiska (<5), and in Nespes (<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.