In Croatia, Barani families are predominantly Croats (from Biograd na moru ), rarely Poles (also from Biograd na moru ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Barani live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Biograd na moru (10).
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.