Škrlec families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdinske Toplice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdinske Toplice. In Drenovec in Varazdinske Toplice every tenth inhabitant had the family name Škrlec.
Prevalence
About 700 people with faimily name Škrlec live in Croatia today, in 280 households. There were 800 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 83 other places, mostly in Zagreb (175), Djurmanec in Krapina area (65), Drenovec (50), Zlatar (45), and in Donje Psarjevo (25).