Mahnet families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina.
Prevalence
About 150 people with faimily name Mahnet live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 19 other places, mostly in Turkovcina in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (55), Zagreb (20), Bedenica in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (<10), Zadrkovec (<10), and in Dubrava in Vrbovec area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.