In Croatia, Penc families are Croats (from Djakovo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djakovo area and in Middle Bosnia (Sarajevo area).
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Penc live in Croatia today, in 14 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Mandicevac in Djakovo area (<10), Vodnjan in Pula area (<5), Djakovo (<5), and in Drenje in Djakovo area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.