In Croatia, Brusich families are Croats by relative majority (from Rijeka ), less frequently Italians (also from Rijeka ), and rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Brusich live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Rijeka (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Brusich is present in 14 countries on four continents. The family name "Brusich " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 60 in Argentina , and small number of people in Uruguay. "Brussich " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Italy.
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.