Toplek families are Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Prelog.
Prevalence
About 450 people with faimily name Toplek live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 360 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 47 other places, mostly in Cakovec (170), Zagreb (25), Ivanovec (20), and in Nedelisce (20) and Brezje (20) in Cakovec 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.