Surname Gjureković in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Gjureković families are generally Croats (from Petrinja area ), very rarely Slovenes (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Petrinja area.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Gjureković live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in four Croatian counties, threee cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Poljana Lekenicka in Petrinja area (<5), Bibinje in Zadar area (<5), Veliko Korenovo (<5), and in Gora (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gjureković is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Branimir Gjureković, Miroslav Gjureković, Milan Gjureković, Snježana Gjureković, Josip Gjureković, Zvonko Gjureković, Ivan Gjureković, Željko Gjureković, Marija Gjureković, Vinko Gjureković, Ivana Gjureković, Katarina Gjureković, Stjepan Gjureković, Ivka Gjureković, Kata Gjureković, Joso Gjureković, Marica Gjureković, Milica Gjureković, Tatjana Gjureković

Mentions in sources

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

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