In Croatia, Svetoivanec families are Croats (from Cazma ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Svetoivanec live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only five naselja i to in Milanovac (<5), Cazma (<5), Virovitica (<5), Ivanic-Grad (<5), and in Pobrdjani (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Svetoivanec is present in this form only in Croatia.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1930 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.