In Croatia, Hoćevar families are Croats (from Osijek ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djakovo.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Hoćevar live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Osijek (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.