Surname Ruševljan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Ruševljan families are generally Croats (from Petrinja area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and in Petrinja area. In Pokupsko Vratečko in Petrinja area every second inhabitant had the family name Ruševljan.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Ruševljan live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are only located in two Croatian cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Sisak (<10), Lipovec in Oroslavje area (<10), Pokupsko Vratecko in Petrinja area (<10), and in Pisarovina in Jastrebarsko area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Ruševljan (including: Rusevljan , Rusevlyan ) is present in three countries on two continents. "Rusevlyan " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Miroslav Ruševljan, Božidar Ruševljan, Željko Ruševljan, Davorin Ruševljan, Nikola Ruševljan, Tomislav Ruševljan, Ines Ruševljan, Davor Ruševljan, Zdravko Ruševljan, Branko Ruševljan, Dalibor Ruševljan, Marija Ruševljan, Nada Ruševljan, Marica Ruševljan, Josip Ruševljan, Marijan Ruševljan, Snježana Ruševljan, Ivan Ruševljan, Brankica Ruševljan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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