About 40 people with faimily name Erben live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and four other places, mostly in Pavlovac in Grubisno Polje area (<10), Zagreb (<10), Disnik (<10), Gorica Svetojanska (<10), and in Bjelovar (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Erben is present in 32 countries worldwide.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.