Hegedušić families are Croats and they are mostly from Koprivnica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Koprivnica and in Koprivnica area.
Prevalence
About 140 people with faimily name Hegedušić live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Koprivnica (30), Zagreb (30), Bjelovar (<10), Botinovec in Koprivnica area (<10), and in Virovitica (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1750 in source 18th Century Census.