In Croatia, Mačefat families are Croats (from Klanjec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Klanjec area.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Mačefat live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Zagreb (<5), Poljana Sutlanska in Klanjec area (<5), Banjol on the Island of Rab (<5), Rijeka (<5), and in Veliko Polje (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Mačefat is present in this form only in Croatia.
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.