In Croatia, Čaček families are Croats (from Dugo Selo ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Dugo Selo area. In Prikraj in Dugo Selo area every thirtieth inhabitant had the family name Čaček.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Čaček live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent. They are located in only four naselja i to in Dugo Selo (10), Zagreb (<10), Prikraj in Dugo Selo area (<5), and in Rakovec in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.