In Croatia, Mihelec families are Croats (from Samobor ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Samobor and Pozega. In Galgovo in Samobor every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Mihelec.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Mihelec live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Sveti Martin Pod Okicem (10), Pozega (10), Rijeka (<10), Zadar (<10), and in Kupljenovo (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.