In Croatia, Rusman families are Croats (from Varazdin ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Rusman live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located and 5 other Croatian places, mostly in Varazdin (30), Zagreb (10), Crnec Biskupecki (<10), Bjelovar (<5), and in Radovan (<5).
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.