In Croatia, Matuzalem families are generally Croats (from Virovitica ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Virovitica and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Matuzalem live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located and 10 other Croatian places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Spisic Bukovica in Virovitica area (<10), Virovitica (<10), Rijeka (<5), and in Golo Brdo (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Matuzalem is present in five countries on three continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.