In Croatia, Šlabek families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Djurdjevac area.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Šlabek live in Croatia today, in 16 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent. They are located and two other Croatian places, mostly in Novacka in Djurdjevac area (20), Koprivnica (<10), Zagreb (<5), Kutina (<5), and in Dugo Selo (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.