Hruškar families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin. In places Stažnjevec and Gačice in Ivanec every tenth inhabitant had the family name Hruškar.
Prevalence
About 340 people with faimily name Hruškar live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 320 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Sveti Kriz in Zlatar area (30), Staznjevec (30), Varazdin (25), and in Gacice (25).
Outside Croatia
Family name Hruškar (including: Hruskar , Charuskar and Hrushkar ) is present in four countries on three continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.