In Croatia, Matulic families are generally Croats (from Prelog area ), very rarely Slovaks (also from Prelog area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Prelog area and in Koprivnica.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Matulic live in Croatia today, in five households only. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Kotoriba in Prelog area (15), Koprivnica (<5), and in Draskovec (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.