In Croatia, Pavlinovec families are Croats (from Cazma ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and Cazma.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Pavlinovec live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only five naselja i to in Suhaja (<5), Donji Miklous (<5), Zagreb (<5), Vrtlinska (<5), and in Pobrdjani (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Pavlinovec is present in this form only in Croatia.