Saršon families are Croats and they are mostly from Rijeka area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Rijeka area. In Saršoni in Rijeka area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Saršon.
Prevalence
About 160 people with faimily name Saršon live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Rijeka (60), Sarsoni in Rijeka area (25), Kastav (10), and in Marinici (<10) and Viskovo (<10) in Rijeka area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.