Surname Čurčić in modern Croatia

Čurčić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from middle Bosnia , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Middle Bosnia (Zenica area) and in Middle Bosnia (Kiseljak area).

Prevalence

About 210 people with faimily name Čurčić live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 390 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 43 other places, mostly in Knin (25), Novoselci (15), Zagreb (15), Split (15), and in Zapolje in Nova Gradiska area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čurčić (including: Curcic , Churchich , Ciurcas and Churcich ) is present in 32 countries worldwide. The family name "Curcic " is used by some 200 people in Germany , about 100 in the United States , and small number of people in Canada. "Churchich " is used by some 90 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivica Čurčić, Rudolf Čurčić, Alen Čurčić, Željko Čurčić, Snježana Čurčić, Zdenko Čurčić, Marjan Čurčić, Ivan Čurčić, Karolina Čurčić, Goran Čurčić, Zdravko Čurčić, Danijel Čurčić, Sanja Čurčić, Saša Čurčić, Valentina Čurčić, Vjekoslav Čurčić, Dražen Čurčić, Milan Čurčić, Krunoslav Čurčić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.

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