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Surname Grđan in modern Croatia
Grđan families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Ivanec. In Osečka in Ivanec every fifth inhabitant had the family name Grđan.
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Prevalence
About 720 people with faimily name Grđan live in Croatia today, in 290 households. There were 610 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 32 cities and 88 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Varazdin (65), Radovan (35), Osecka (30), and in Tuzno in Varazdin area (30).
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Outside Croatia
Family name Grđan (including: Grdjan , Gerdan , Grdan , Gherdan , Grgjan , Gergian , Gergyan , Ghirdan and Grgyan ) is present in 30 countries worldwide. "Gherdan " is used by some 500 people in Romania , about 50 in Moldova , and small number of people in the United States. "Ghirdan " is used by small number of people in the United States.
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Characteristic first names
Zdravka Grđan,
Božena Grđan,
Ivan Grđan,
Alan Grđan,
Petar Grđan,
Mladen Grđan,
Pavle Grđan,
Milan Grđan,
Zdenko Grđan,
Martin Grđan,
Miljenka Grđan,
Stjepan Grđan,
Dubravka Grđan,
Kristina Grđan,
Damir Grđan,
Anton Grđan,
Vladimir Grđan,
Siniša Grđan,
Dragutin Grđan
