In Croatia, Varaždinec families are almost entirely Croats (from Djurdjevac area ), very rarely Bosniaks (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Djurdjevac area. In Molve Grede in Djurdjevac area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Varaždinec.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Varaždinec live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located and 9 other Croatian places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Molve Grede in Djurdjevac area (<10), Donja Kovacica in Grubisno Polje area (<10), Dugo Selo (<10), and in Djurdjevac (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Varaždinec 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 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.