In Croatia, Šodec families are Croats (from Dugo Selo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dugo Selo area and in Zagreb. In Gračec in Dugo Selo area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Šodec.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Šodec live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only five naselja i to in Dugo Selo (15), Gracac (<10), Zagreb (<5), Sveti Ivan Zelina (<5), and in Gracec in Dugo Selo area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1938 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.