In Croatia, Kerenec families are Croats (from Zlatar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nasice area and in Zlatar area.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Kerenec live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Vukanci in Zlatar area (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Susine in Nasice area (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Kerenec is present in this form only in Croatia.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.