Hrga families are Croats and they are mostly from Drnis area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and in Western Bosnia (Livno area). In Koprno in Drnis area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Hrga.
Prevalence
About 360 people with faimily name Hrga live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Split (90), Zagreb (40), Knin (35), Djakovo (25), and in Bjelovar (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.