In Croatia, Pokupčić families are Croats (from Jastrebarsko area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Jastrebarsko area. In Topolovec Pisarovinski in Jastrebarsko area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Pokupčić.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Pokupčić live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties and 5 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Slatina (<10), in Pisarovina (<10) and Dvoranci (<10) in Jastrebarsko area, and in Ivanec (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Pokupčić is present in this form only in Croatia.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.