In Croatia, Frančin families are Croats (from Pazin ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pazin and Pula.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Frančin live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Beram (15), Pazin (<5), and in Sveti Petar u Sumi in Pazin area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.