In Croatia, Romano families are generally Croats (from Buje area ), very rarely Jews (from Podrinje (Bosnia) ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Porec and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Romano live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent. They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Pula (<10), Ferenci in Buje area (<5), Osijek (<5), and in Glina (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Romano is present in 125 countries worldwide.
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.