Žurić families are Croats and they are mostly from Drnis area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 230 people with faimily name Žurić live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Split (55), Zagreb (50), Sibenik (30), Apsevci in Vinkovci area (<10), and in Pakovo Selo (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.