In Croatia, Mucek families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sveti Ivan Zelina and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Mucek live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in only four naselja i to in Sveti Ivan Zelina (<10), Vrbovec (<10), Donje Oresje (<10), and in Zukovec in Vrbovec area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.