Kerovec families are Croats and they are mostly from Mursko Sredisce area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Mursko Sredisce area.
Prevalence
About 280 people with faimily name Kerovec live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 36 other places, mostly in Kozarac in Beli Manastir area (25), Cakovec (20), Koprivnica (20), Zagreb (20), and in Podturen in Mursko Sredisce area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.