Zupan Family History
Zupan Name Meaning
Slovenian (also Župan) and Croatian (mainly Župan): status name from župan ‘village headman’ (a derivative of Slavic župa ‘district’ or ‘community’) or in the case of the most common Slovenian variant Zupan from its Germanized (Middle High German) form sūpān suppān. The modern sense of the term župan is ‘mayor burgomaster’ or (in Croatia) ‘head of an administrative district’. Compare Supan and Suppan .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022