Škreb families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zlatar.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Škreb live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Vidovec in Varazdin area (20), Donja Batina (10), Donja Konjscina in Zlatar area (<10), and in Cakovec (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.