In Croatia, Jankovec families are Croats (from Dugo Selo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Dugo Selo area.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Jankovec live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in four Croatian counties and four other places, mostly in Cemernica Lonjska in Ivanic-Grad area (<10), Dugo Selo (<5), Tisina Kaptolska in Sisak area (<5), Pirakovec (<5), and in Pogancec in Vrbovec area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.