Surname Bašan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Bašan families are generally Croats (from Pula area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic and Pula.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Bašan live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent.
They are located and another small Croatian place , mostly in Dobrec (<5), Djakovo (<5), Liznjan in Pula area (<5), Pula (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (5) and Canada (1).
Family name Bašan (including: Basan , Bashan , Bassan , Baasan , Bassman , Bashtan , Bahsan , Basann , Basshan and Baschan ) is present in 87 countries worldwide. "Basshan " is used by few people in the United States. "Bassman " is used by some 500 people in the United States , small number in Brazil , and small number of people in France. "Bashman " is used by some 400 people in South Africa and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Elio Bašan, Lorena Bašan, Ivana Bašan, Davorka Bašan, Ljiljana Bašan, Ivan Bašan, Josip Bašan, Marija Bašan, Vladimir Bašan, Igor Bašan, Nevio Bašan, Cvitko Bašan, Roza Bašan, Mande Bašan, Maria Bašan, Franjo Bašan, Zvonimir Bašan, Ana Bašan, Ida Bašan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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