Buden families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zlatar and Zagreb. In Donja Selnica in Zlatar every sixth inhabitant had the family name Buden.
Prevalence
About 180 people with faimily name Buden live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (65), Donja Selnica (35), Varazdin (15), and in Vinica (10) and Calinec (<10) in Ivanec area.
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.