In Croatia, Rose families are Croats (from Bakar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bakar and Zagreb.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Rose live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Zagreb (<5), Milna on the Island of Brac (<5), and in Katolicke Caire (<5).
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.