In Croatia, Lojan families are almost entirely Croats (from Koprivnica ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Koprivnica and in Djurdjevac area.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Lojan live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, four cities and four other places, mostly in Koprivnica (30), Sisak (10), Zagreb (<10), Kraljevac in Bjelovar area (<5), and in Starigrad (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.