In Croatia, Bulian families are predominantly Croats (from Pula ), rarely Italians (also from Pula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rijeka.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Bulian live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent. They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Pula (15), Rijeka (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.