Surname Žure in modern Croatia

Žure families are Croats and they are mostly from Split. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Žure live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Srinjine (45), Split (35), Zagreb (<5), and in Gornje Sitno (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Žure (including: Zure , Zuure , Zhure , Zurre , Zuhree and Zuere ) is present in 26 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Nenad Žure, Mladen Žure, Tome Žure, Frane Žure, Tonči Žure, Anita Žure, Đina Žure, Marijana Žure, Marin Žure, Ivica Žure, Željana Žure, Luka Žure, Kristina Žure, Roko Žure, Jurica Žure, Antea Žure, Zorka Žure, Zoran Žure, Albert Žure

Mentions in sources

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.

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