In Croatia, Desin families are Croats (from Dubrovnik area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and in Dubrovnik area. In Molunat in Dubrovnik area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Desin.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Desin live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in only four naselja i to in Djurinici in Dubrovnik area (<10), Dubrovnik (<5), and in Molunat (<5) and Cavtat (<5) in Dubrovnik area.