Šterc families are Croats and they are mostly from Sisak area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak area and in Sisak. In Desna Martinska Ves in Sisak area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Šterc.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Šterc live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located and 13 other Croatian places, mostly in Desna Martinska Ves in Sisak area (55), Zagreb (20), Sisak (<10), Vukovar (<10), and in Desno Trebarjevo in Sisak area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.