Halužan families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Pregrada area. In places Lupinjak and Ravnice Desinićke in Pregrada area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Halužan.
Prevalence
About 590 people with faimily name Halužan live in Croatia today, in 240 households. There were 650 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 63 other places, mostly in Zagreb (220), and in Klenovec Humski (25), Ravnice Desinicke (20), Prislin (20) and Lupinjak (20) in Pregrada area.
Outside Croatia
Family name Halužan is present in this form only in Croatia.
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.