In Croatia, Nose families are Croats (from Duga Resa ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and in Ogulin area. In Gornji Zvečaj in Ogulin area every fourtieth inhabitant had the family name Nose.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Nose live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in only four naselja i to in Karlovac (15), Zvecaj (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Lovran in Opatija area (<5).