Škarec families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina. In Polonje in Sveti Ivan Zelina every eighth inhabitant had the family name Škarec.
Prevalence
About 150 people with faimily name Škarec live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Polonje (30), Zagreb (25), Krecaves (15), Velika Gorica (15), and in Utiskani in Bjelovar area (10).
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.