Brkan families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Trogir area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Trogir area and in Split. In Kasapovići in Middle Bosnia every third inhabitant had the family name Brkan.
Prevalence
About 300 people with faimily name Brkan live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Split (40), Trogir (35), Dubrovnik (30), and in Bristivica in Trogir area (30).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.