In Croatia, Heiman families are Croats (from Bosnian Krajina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosnian Krajina (Kotor Varos area) and in Bosanian Posavina (Orasje area).
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Heiman live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Sisak (<5), Djakovo (<5), and in Makarska (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.