Bego families are Croats and they are mostly from Rogoznice near Trogira. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Sibenik. In Brotnice in Dubrovnik area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Bego.
Prevalence
About 200 people with faimily name Bego live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Split (85), Sibenik (30), Rogoznica in Trogir area (20), Zagreb (20), and in Brotnice in Dubrovnik area (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.