In Croatia, Čeman families are Croats (from Srijem, Vojvodina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Backa, Vojvodina and in Srijem, Vojvodina.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Čeman live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in four Croatian cities only: in Osijek (<10), Pula (<5), Vukovar (<5), and in Bapska (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over fifty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.