Lisec families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Samobor.
Prevalence
About 260 people with faimily name Lisec live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 31 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Sveti Martin Pod Okicem (40), Velika Gorica (25), Galgovo (15), and in Gradici (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.