Pokupec families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zapresic. In Pojatno in Zapresic every tenth inhabitant had the family name Pokupec.
Prevalence
About 240 people with faimily name Pokupec live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 380 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Zapresic (20), Pojatno (15), Cakovec (15), and in Kupljenovo (15).
Outside Croatia
Family name Pokupec is present in five countries on two continents. The family name "Pokupec " is used by small number of people in Canada and small number in the United States.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.