Popec 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 Djurdjevac area and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 100 people with faimily name Popec live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Molve in Djurdjevac area (40), Djurdjevac (10), Zagreb (<10), and in Virje (<10) and Novo Virje (<10) in Djurdjevac area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.