In Croatia, Smišljan families are Croats (from Dubrovnik area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and in Dubrovnik area. In Popovići in Dubrovnik area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Smišljan.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Smišljan live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Popovici in Dubrovnik area (10), Nova Mokosica (<5), and in Gruda in Dubrovnik area (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Smišljan is present in this form only in Croatia.