In Croatia, Hace families are almost entirely Croats (from Nova Gradiska ), very rarely Macedonians (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska and Novska.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Hace live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled. They are located in 6 Croatian counties and threee other places, mostly in Nova Gradiska (15), Rijeka (<10), Pozega (<10), Novska (<10), and in Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.
