In Croatia, Matečko families are Croats (from Varazdin area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Lepoglava.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Matečko live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Nova Ves Petrijanecka in Varazdin area (<10), Varazdin (<10), Jalzabet in Ludbreg area (<10), Donja Visnjica (<10), and in Petrijanec in Varazdin area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1924 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.