Resman families are Croats and they are mostly from Cabar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cabar and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Resman live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Cakovec (20), Kriz in Ivanic-Grad area (<10), Gerovo (<10), and in Trsce (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.