In Croatia, Herkvi families are Croats (from Zadar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vinkovci and in Zadar area.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Herkvi live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Mali Losinj on the Island of Losinj (<10), Poljana Cicka (<10), and in Privlaka (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Herkvi is present in this form only in Croatia.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.