In Croatia, Barbarossa families are Croats (from Biograd na moru area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Barbarossa live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Zagreb (<5), and in Sveti Filip i Jakov (<5) and Turanj (<5) in Biograd na moru area.
Outside Croatia
Family name Barbarossa is present in 27 countries worldwide. The family name "Barbarossa " is used by some 3000 people in Italy , about 300 in the United States , and some 200 people in Argentina.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.
