In Croatia, Tureček families are Croats (from Pleternica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krapina and Pleternica.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Tureček live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Zagreb (<5) and Pleternica (<5).
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.