In Croatia, Gardos families are Italians (from Buje ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Buje and Umag.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Gardos live in Croatia today, in three households only. They are located in only two naselja i to in Buje (<5) and Krasica (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.