In Croatia, Gajst families are Croats (from Virovitica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Virovitica.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Gajst live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only two naselja i to in Bjelovar (<5) and Zdralovi (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1924 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.