Vidan families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Solta. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and on the Island of Solta. In Stomorska on the Island of Solta every third inhabitant had the family name Vidan.
Prevalence
About 150 people with faimily name Vidan live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Split (60), Stomorska on the Island of Solta (30), Zagreb (25), Recica (<10), and in Solin (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.