Jusup families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Pasman (Seline). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and on the Island of Pasman.
Prevalence
About 250 people with faimily name Jusup live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Zadar (50), Seline on the Island of Pasman (15), Rijeka (15), and in Velika Gorica (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.