Podravec families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Koprivnica and in Djurdjevac area.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Podravec live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 6 Croatian counties and 13 other places, mostly in Virje (20) and Novo Virje (15) in Djurdjevac area, Zagreb (15), Bjelovar (<10), and in Koprivnica (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1925 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.