Jurdana families are Croats and they are mostly from Opatija area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb. In Jurdani in Opatija area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Jurdana.
Prevalence
About 130 people with faimily name Jurdana live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and 14 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), in Jurdani (20) and Matulji (15) in Opatija area, Opatija (10), and in Rukavac in Opatija area (10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Jurdana is present in 8 countries on four continents. The family name "Jurdana " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Yurdana " is used by small number of people in the United States.
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.