In Croatia, Riđan families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slavonski Brod and Sveti Ivan Zelina. In Bunjak in Sveti Ivan Zelina every tenth inhabitant had the family name Riđan.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Riđan live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties and four other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (25), Nespes (15), Gornja Drenova (10), Zagreb (<10), and in Vinkovci (<5).
