In Croatia, Gauš families are Croats (from Opatija area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Opatija area.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Gauš live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties and 7 other places, mostly in Klana in Opatija area (25), Rijeka (10), Kastav (<5), Matulji in Opatija area (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).
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.