In Croatia, Panjan families are Croats (from Dugo Selo ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dugo Selo and Sisak.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Panjan live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in four Croatian counties and another small place , mostly in Dugo Selo (<10), Zagreb (<10), Sisak (<5), Hrastovica (<5), and in Bjelovar (<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.