Gulan families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Zadar area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar area and in Zadar. In Galovac in Zadar area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Gulan.
Prevalence
About 460 people with faimily name Gulan live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Galovac in Zadar area (175), Zadar (125), Zagreb (25), Sisak (20), and in Rijeka (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1928 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.