In Croatia, Springer families are generally Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ), rarely Austrians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Springer live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Zagreb (<10) and Sulinec (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.