Polančec families are Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Lepoglava area and in Zagreb. In places Vrbno and Ježovec in Lepoglava area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Polančec.
Prevalence
About 300 people with faimily name Polančec live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 49 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Jezovec in Lepoglava area (30), Bjelovar (25), Koprivnica (20), and in Varazdin (15).
Outside Croatia
Family name Polančec is present in three countries.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.