In Croatia, Bićan families are Croats (from Gospic ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Bićan live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Osijek (<10), Rakov Potok (<10), Sljivosevci in Donji Miholjac area (<10), and in Licki Novi (<10).
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.