In Croatia, Mikšec families are Croats (from Bjelovar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and in Bjelovar area. In Stara Rača in Bjelovar area every thirtieth inhabitant had the family name Mikšec.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Mikšec live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 640 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and 6 other places, mostly in Bjelovar (15), Zagreb (10), in Nova Raca (<10) and Stara Raca (<10) in Bjelovar area, and in Banovo (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Mikšec is present in this form only in Croatia.
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.