Jagarčec families are Croats and they are mostly from Donja Stubica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Donja Stubica and Zagreb. In places Vučak and Lepa Ves in Donja Stubica every eighth inhabitant had the family name Jagarčec.
Prevalence
About 200 people with faimily name Jagarčec live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Vucak (80), Zagreb (50), Donja Stubica (15), Stubicke Toplice in Oroslavje area (<10), and in Lepa Ves (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Jagarčec 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 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.