In Croatia, Megovec families are Croats (from Zapresic area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zapresic area and in Slovenia. In Prudnice in Zapresic area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Megovec.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Megovec live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only five Croatian places: in Prudnice (<10), Senkovec (<5) and Prigorje Brdovecko (<5) in Zapresic area, Zapresic (<5), and in Kljuc Brdovecki in Zapresic area (<5).
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.