Surname Ćurak in modern Croatia

Ćurak families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Doboj, Bosnia (Doboj area) and in Bosanian Posavina (Odzak area).

Prevalence

About 300 people with faimily name Ćurak live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 30 other places, mostly in Solin (55), Zagreb (30), Trogir (30), Kastel Kambelovac (20), and in Bjelovar (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Ćurak (including: Curak , Churak , Chourak , Curac , Czurak , Churack , Chmurak , Curach , Chaurak and Ciurak ) is present in 34 countries worldwide. "Churak " is used by some 400 people in Belarus , about 100 in Ukraine , and some 100 people in the United States. "Churack " is used by small number of people in Australia and small number in the United States. "Czurak " is used by some 500 people in Poland and about 60 in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivo Ćurak, Jure Ćurak, Ivan Ćurak, Antonija Ćurak, Ante Ćurak, Marijana Ćurak, Karlo Ćurak, Filip Ćurak, Mijo Ćurak, Vladimir Ćurak, Ivica Ćurak, Dražen Ćurak, Hrvoje Ćurak, Božo Ćurak, Ljiljana Ćurak, Lucijana Ćurak, Tomislav Ćurak, Dario Ćurak, Mato Ćurak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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