Rusek families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof area and in Zagreb. In places Gornjaki and Krščenovec in Novi Marof area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Rusek.
Prevalence
About 170 people with faimily name Rusek live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 23 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), in Gornjaki (30) and Scepanje (10) in Novi Marof area, Sesvete (<10), and in Velika Gorica (<10).