In Croatia, Gojtan families are generally Croats (from Buje area ), barely Serbs, and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Umag and Pazin.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Gojtan live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Fiorini in Buje area (10), Dajla (<10), Rijeka (<5), Osijek (<5), and in Pazin (<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.