In Croatia, Gjurinec families are Croats (from Zlatar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zlatar area.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Gjurinec live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Lobor in Zlatar area (<5), Brezani in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (<5), and in Kundjevac in Vrbovec area (<5).
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.