In Croatia, Šabijan families are generally Croats (from Novi Marof area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof area and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Šabijan live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent. They are located in only four naselja i to in Dropkovec in Novi Marof area (<10), Medulin in Pula area (<5), Varazdin (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).