In Croatia, Pavan families are almost entirely Croats (from the Island of Krk ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Krk and in Rijeka. In Vrbnik on the Island of Krk every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Pavan.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Pavan live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and two other places, mostly in Vrbnik on the Island of Krk (40), Zagreb (15), Krk on the Island of Krk (<10), Karlovac (<5), and in Slavonski Brod (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.