In Croatia, Šarkanj families are Croats (from Zlatar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zlatar.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Šarkanj live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Kasina (20), Belec (20), Klokocevac (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Veliko Trojstvo in Bjelovar area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.