Trgovac families are Croats and they are mostly from Bjelovar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and in Bjelovar area. In Gornja Petrička in Bjelovar area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Trgovac.
Prevalence
About 160 people with faimily name Trgovac live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Bjelovar (25), Sinj (15), Gorica Svetojanska (10), and in Donja Petricka in Bjelovar area (10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Trgovac is present in five countries on three continents. The family name "Trgovac " is used by some 80 people in the United States.
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.