Bedek families are Croats and they are mostly from Oroslavje. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Velika Gorica. In Vukovina in Velika Gorica every sixth inhabitant had the family name Bedek.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Bedek live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Stubicka Slatina (20), Vukovina (20), Demerje (15), and in Donja Bistra in Oroslavje area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.