Surname Gaurina in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 170 people with faimily name Gaurina live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are only located in in 7 Croatian cities and four other places, mostly in Suhac (85), Sinj (60), Glavice (15), Zagreb (<10), and in Split (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gaurina is present in three countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Davor Gaurina, Darko Gaurina, Alen Gaurina, Igor Gaurina, Siniša Gaurina, Ivo Gaurina, Vesna Gaurina, Blaženko Gaurina, Mirko Gaurina, Jozo Gaurina, Mladenka Gaurina, Anita Gaurina, Zoran Gaurina, Jelena Gaurina, Nikolina Gaurina, Silvija Gaurina, Milan Gaurina, Nada Gaurina, Marko Gaurina

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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