In Croatia, Hraste families are Croats (from the Island of Hvar ), barely Czechs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and on the Island of Hvar.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Hraste live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Hvar on the Island of Hvar (15), Split (10), Brusje on the Island of Hvar (<10), and in Rijeka (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Hraste is present in 7 countries on two continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.