Varda families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Split. According to some sources they are from Sinj, often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Varda live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Split (<10), Rijeka (<10), Vukovar (<10), and in Hrvatsko Polje (<10).
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.