Surname Rožan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Rožan families are Croats (from Karlovac ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Rožan live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Sisljavic (10), Zagreb (<5), and in Ogulin (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rožan (including: Rozan , Erozan , Rozhan , Rozhman and Rozann ) is present in 48 countries worldwide. "Rozann " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dragutin Rožan, Jasminka Rožan, Štefanija Rožan, Marica Rožan, Berislav Rožan, Natalija Rožan, Hrvoje Rožan, Tomo Rožan, Agata Rožan, Marija Rožan, Jela Rožan, Karlo Rožan, Zdravko Rožan, Franjo Rožan, Bara Rožan, Jelica Rožan, Josip Rožan, Lucija Rožan, Magda Rožan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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