Audrey Horvat wrote: > > Researching the surname HORVAT/GODEC from Jugoslavia. Horvat & Godec are no longer surnames from Yugoslavia but from Croatia with Horvat being a Hungarian alteration of Hrvat (=Croat) and means that your ancestors have certainly been Hungarized and their genuine slavic surname replaced by the mentioned nickname. Godec sounds with its -ec suffix very croatian, from Zagorje? (serb would be rather -ac) but it isn't excluded that it might be of slovene origin too.