Arbanas families are Croats and they are mostly from Velika Gorica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zadar. In Kaluđerovac in Gospic area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Arbanas.
Prevalence
About 650 people with faimily name Arbanas live in Croatia today, in 280 households. There were 700 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 34 cities and 41 other places, mostly in Smilcic (80), Zadar (75), Zagreb (75), Slavonski Brod (65), and in Rijeka (50).
Outside Croatia
At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Austria (3), Canada (2), Germany (1), the United States (1), and to France (1). Family name Arbanas is present in 17 countries on four continents. The family name "Arbanas " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 300 in Romania , and some 50 people in Canada.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.
