Rutić families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof and Varazdin. In places Podevčevo and Presečno in Novi Marof every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Rutić.
Prevalence
About 130 people with faimily name Rutić live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 14 other places, mostly in Podevcevo (30), Presecno (25), Zagreb (20), Varazdin (10), and in Turcin in Varazdin area (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1938 in source Phone Book - Zagreb 1938.