In Croatia, Hegedus families are Croats (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Split.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Hegedus live in Croatia today, in four households only. They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Osijek (<5), Pula (<5), Virovitica (<5), and in Zdala in Djurdjevac area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.