In Croatia, Kovaćek families are Croats (from Ludbreg area ).
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Kovaćek live in Croatia today, in one household only. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Zupanec in Ludbreg area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.