Surname Hegedić in modern Croatia

Hegedić families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof area and in Varazdin. In Presečno Visočko in Novi Marof area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Hegedić.

Prevalence

About 160 people with faimily name Hegedić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Presecno Visocko in Novi Marof area (40), Zagreb (20), Krizevci (15), Butkovec in Novi Marof area (<10), and in Varazdin (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Hegedić is present in four countries on two continents. The family name "Hegedic " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Hegedić, Zoran Hegedić, Stjepan Hegedić, Anita Hegedić, Duška Hegedić, Krunoslav Hegedić, Anđelko Hegedić, Zlatko Hegedić, Sandra Hegedić, Bojan Hegedić, Tomislav Hegedić, Gordana Hegedić, Dubravka Hegedić, Vladimir Hegedić, Kristina Hegedić, Dražen Hegedić, Ljiljana Hegedić, Neven Hegedić, Zdravko Hegedić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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