In Croatia, Kapan families are generally Croats (from Garesnica ), rarely Hungarians (also from Garesnica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Garesnica.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Kapan live in Croatia today, in two 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 Croatian places: in Garesnica (<5), Disnik (<5), and in Vukovije in Daruvar area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.