Host families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Rijeka , rarely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 180 people with faimily name Host live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are only located in in 7 Croatian cities and 11 other places, mostly in Rijeka (110), Zagreb (15), Matulji in Opatija area (15), and in Viskovo (15) and Marcelji (15) in Rijeka area.
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.