Prugovečki families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar area. According to some sources they are from Globocec near Marija Bistrica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zlatar area and in Sveti Ivan Zelina. In Žitomir in Sveti Ivan Zelina every second inhabitant had the family name Prugovečki.
Prevalence
About 650 people with faimily name Prugovečki live in Croatia today, in 250 households. There were 600 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 75 other places, mostly in Zagreb (125), Globocec in Zlatar area (80), Zitomir (75), Sesvete (40), and in Slatina (30).
Outside Croatia
Family name Prugovečki is present in three countries on two continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.