Jurinec families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cakovec. In Rakitje in Samobor area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Jurinec.
Prevalence
About 240 people with faimily name Jurinec live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 240 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Spickovina (35), Cakovec (30), Bestovje in Samobor area (20), and in Turcin in Varazdin area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.