Gortan families are Croats and they are mostly from Pazin. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Pazin. In Beram in Pazin every sixth inhabitant had the family name Gortan.
Prevalence
About 140 people with faimily name Gortan live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Marcana in Pula area (35), Pazin (25), Beram (20), Pula (20), and in Zagreb (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.