In Croatia, Čurjak families are Croats (from Karlovac ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Čurjak live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in only four naselja i to in Vodostaj (40), Karlovac (25), Donje Mekusje (<5), and in Brodjani (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.