In Croatia, Baštijan families are Croats (from Ivanic-Grad area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ivanic-Grad area and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Baštijan live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), in Klostar Ivanic (15) and Beslinec (<10) in Ivanic-Grad area, Struzec in Kutina area (<10), and in Rijeka (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.