In Croatia, Herijan families are Croats (from Pleternica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pleternica area.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Herijan live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Djedina Rijeka in Pleternica area (<10), Pozega (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.