In Croatia, Sarvan families are predominantly Croats (from Pula ), very rarely Bosniaks (from Bosnian Posavina ), and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Karlovac.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Sarvan live in Croatia today, in 14 households. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and two other places, mostly in Pula (<10), Kutina (<10), Crikvenica (<5), Duga Resa (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.