Vrhovski families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Lepoglava area. In Osonjak in Lepoglava area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Vrhovski.
Prevalence
About 360 people with faimily name Vrhovski live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 24 cities and 39 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Koprivnica (35), Prigorje in Krapina area (25), Gornja Plemenscina (20), and in Bjelovar (15).
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.