Surname Burica in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Burica live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Grohote on the Island of Solta (30), Split (25), Zagreb (15), Samobor (<10), and in Brusane (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Burica (including: Burrieza , Buricca , Buricha and Burrica ) is present in 16 countries worldwide. The family name "Burica " is used by some 90 people in the United States , about 70 in Angola , and small number of people in France. "Buricha " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivana Burica, Domagoj Burica, Nikola Burica, Ivica Burica, Josip Burica, Željko Burica, Tomislav Burica, Joško Burica, Nenad Burica, Marina Burica, Roko Burica, Andrea Burica, Sanja Burica, Sandra Burica, Nena Burica, Jasminka Burica, Davor Burica, Nada Burica, Marija Burica

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over sixty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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