In Croatia, Behtan families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sveti Ivan Zelina and Zagreb. In Suhodol Zelinski in Sveti Ivan Zelina every fifth inhabitant had the family name Behtan.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Behtan live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in only five naselja i to in Suhodol Zelinski (10), Zagreb (<10), Sveta Helena (<5), Donja Zelina (<5), and in Hrnjanec (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Behtan is present in this form only in Croatia.
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.