In Croatia, Šalamunec families are Croats (from Bjelovar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar area and in Bjelovar. In Babinac in Bjelovar area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Šalamunec.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Šalamunec live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Babinac in Bjelovar area (10), Zagreb (<10), Bjelovar (<10), Cazma (<5), and in Krizic in Bjelovar area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.