In Croatia, Mahalec families are Croats (from Oroslavje ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Oroslavje.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Mahalec live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Stubicka Slatina (<10), Mokrice (<10), Virovitica (<5), and in Oroslavje (<5).