In Croatia, Strauss families are Croats (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Strauss live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and another small place , mostly in Okrug Gornji on the Island of Ciovo (<5), Makarska (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Jastrebarsko (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.