In Croatia, Kirinec families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Kirinec live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Podravske Sesvete in Djurdjevac area (10), Gornje Oresje (10), Bedenica in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (<10), and in Virovitica (<5).
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.