Zgrebec families are Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Lepoglava and Varazdin.
Prevalence
About 130 people with faimily name Zgrebec live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Varazdin (25), Josipovac (15), Donja Visnjica (15), Gornja Visnjica (<10), and in Zagreb (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Zgrebec 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 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.