Cvitan families are Croats and they are mostly from Vodice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and Vodice. In Tribunj in Vodice every ninth inhabitant had the family name Cvitan.
Prevalence
About 510 people with faimily name Cvitan live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 390 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Tribunj (130), Zagreb (65), Zaton (65), Rijeka (45), and in Sibenik (45).
Outside Croatia
Family name Cvitan is present in 10 countries on three continents. The family name "Cvitan " is used by some 70 people in Australia , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Canada.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.