Surname Bedovec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Bedovec families are Croats (from Krizevci area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krizevci area and in Koprivnica. In Brežani in Krizevci area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Bedovec.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Bedovec live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in only four Croatian places: in Miholec (15) and Sela Ravenska (<10) in Krizevci area, Podgajec (<10), and in Zagreb (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bedovec is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Josip Bedovec, Nikola Bedovec, Marko Bedovec, Mirko Bedovec, Tanja Bedovec, Antonio Bedovec, Ivica Bedovec, Dalibor Bedovec, Danijela Bedovec, Ana Bedovec, Marija Bedovec, Franjo Bedovec, Vesna Bedovec, Štefica Bedovec, Ivan Bedovec, Kata Bedovec, Ljuba Bedovec, Ljubica Bedovec, Dragica Bedovec

Mentions in sources

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.

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