Surname Gjurak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Gjurak families are Croats (from Novi Marof area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Garesnica and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Gjurak live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Kutjevo in Orahovica area (<5), Petrijevci in Valpovo area (<5), Lukavec (<5), and in Greda (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Gjurak is present in five countries.

Characteristic first names

Nevenka Gjurak, Zdravko Gjurak, Zlatko Gjurak, Stjepan Gjurak, Dragutin Gjurak, Petar Gjurak, Barica Gjurak, Ana Gjurak, Ružica Gjurak, Marica Gjurak, Janko Gjurak, Marija Gjurak, Ivan Gjurak, Ivka Gjurak, Paulina Gjurak, Zorica Gjurak, Bara Gjurak, Ivana Gjurak, Viktor Gjurak

Mentions in sources

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.

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