Bogadi families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Lepoglava area and in Djurdjevac area. In Vrhovec Bednjanski in Lepoglava area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Bogadi.
Prevalence
About 350 people with faimily name Bogadi live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 320 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 38 other places, mostly in Zagreb (65), Koprivnica (30), in Gola (30) and Novacka (25) in Djurdjevac area, and in Cestica in Ivanec area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.