Surname Vuđan in modern Croatia

Vuđan families are Croats the family name originates from Krapina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and in Krapina area.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Vuđan live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Gregurovec in Krapina area (25), Zagreb (15), Jamarica (10), and in Dubrava (<10) and Gradec (<10) in Vrbovec area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Vuđan (including: Vudjan , Vudan and Vudhan ) is present in five countries on three continents. "Vudan " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mladen Vuđan, Grozdana Vuđan, Vesna Vuđan, Davorka Vuđan, Marina Vuđan, Slavica Vuđan, Andreja Vuđan, Goran Vuđan, Dalibor Vuđan, Danijel Vuđan, Mirjana Vuđan, Dragica Vuđan, Željkica Vuđan, Zlatko Vuđan, Vida Vuđan, Franjo Vuđan, Edita Vuđan, Božica Vuđan, Zdravko Vuđan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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