In Croatia, Matkan families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Dugo Selo area.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Matkan live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Krizevcec (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.