In Croatia, Bešlin families are Croats (from Osijek area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and in Backa, Vojvodina.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Bešlin live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (<5), Darda in Osijek area (<5), Rijeka (<5), Osijek (<5), and in Slavonski Brod (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.