Štahan families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zlatar.
Prevalence
About 90 people with faimily name Štahan live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and threee other places, mostly in Zlatar (45), Zagreb (35), Karlovac (10), Zlatar-Bistrica in Oroslavje area (<10), and in Samobor (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.