In Croatia, Plac families are Croats by relative majority (from Beli Manastir area ), equally Hungarians (from Beli Manastir ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and in Backa, Vojvodina.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Plac live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are only located in two Croatian cities and another small place , mostly in Beli Manastir (<5), Ceminac in Beli Manastir area (<5), and in Osijek (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.