In Croatia, Šimečak families are Croats (from Samobor ).
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Šimečak live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only two naselja i to in Samobor (<5) and Farkasevec Samoborski (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1678 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.