In Croatia, Hruby families are generally Croats (from Bjelovar ), very rarely Czechs (from Grubisno Polje ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and Grubisno Polje.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Hruby live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Bjelovar (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.