Čudina families are Croats and they are mostly from Biograd na Moru area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and Split.
Prevalence
About 350 people with faimily name Čudina live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 30 other places, mostly in Pakostane in Biograd na moru area (100), Zagreb (45), Split (35), Srinjine (20), and in Rijeka (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.