In Croatia, Bugan families are Croats (from Vrbovec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Vrbovec area.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Bugan live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Selovec in Vrbovec area (15), Hudovo in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (10), and in Krizevci (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.