Matijašec families are Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Ludbreg. In Donje Ladanje in Ivanec area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Matijašec.
Prevalence
About 360 people with faimily name Matijašec live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 310 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 30 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Vinica in Ivanec area (40), Ludbreg (35), Varazdin (25), and in Pausinci in Orahovica area (15).
Outside Croatia
Family name Matijašec is present in this form only in Croatia.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.