Surname Hegeduš in modern Croatia

Hegeduš families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and in Prelog area.

Prevalence

About 280 people with faimily name Hegeduš live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 320 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 28 cities and 43 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Osijek (25), Vukovar (25), Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (20), and in Cakovec (10).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), the United States (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Hegeduš (including: Hegedus , Heghedus , Hegedues , Hegedüs , Hegedusch , Hegedush and Hegeduess ) is present in 50 countries worldwide. The family name "Hegedus " is used by some 50000 people in Hungary , about 9000 in the United States , and some 5000 people in Romania.

Characteristic first names

Damir Hegeduš, Nada Hegeduš, Zlatko Hegeduš, Ivan Hegeduš, Ivana Hegeduš, Pavle Hegeduš, Hrvoje Hegeduš, Antun Hegeduš, Tomislav Hegeduš, Zvonko Hegeduš, Suada Hegeduš, Kata Hegeduš, Marijo Hegeduš, Ruža Hegeduš, Saša Hegeduš, Ivanka Hegeduš, Mario Hegeduš, Danijel Hegeduš, Miroslav Hegeduš

Mentions in sources

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.

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