In Croatia, Matuc families are Croats (from Novska ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novska.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Matuc live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Stara Subocka (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.