In Croatia, Prhat families are Croats (from Labin area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Labin area.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Prhat live in Croatia today, in 16 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are only located in two Croatian cities and 7 other places, mostly in Pula (15), in Prhati (<10), Mali Turini (<10) and Melnica (<5) in Labin area, and in Prhati in Porec area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.