Premec 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 Koprivnica. In Gotalovo in Djurdjevac area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Premec.
Prevalence
About 370 people with faimily name Premec live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 39 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Koprivnica (55), Gola in Djurdjevac area (45), Ludbreg (25), and in Drnje in Koprivnica area (25).
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.