Mesek families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. According to some sources the family name originates from Slovakia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Mesek live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Sracinec in Varazdin area (35), Varazdin (20), Vinica in Ivanec area (<10), and in Rijeka (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.