In Croatia, Brćan families are Croats (from Rijeka area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka area.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Brćan live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Podhum in Rijeka area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1925 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.