In Croatia, Malčević families are Croats (from Velika Gorica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Velika Gorica.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Malčević live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are only located in threee Croatian cities and 5 other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Gornje Podotocje (<10), Kuce (<10), Velika Gorica (<5), and in Sracinec in Varazdin area (<5).
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.