Surname Gjuričić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Gjuričić families are Croats (from Ivanic-Grad area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Garesnica and Zagreb. In Kajgana in Garesnica every fiftieth inhabitant had the family name Gjuričić.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Gjuričić live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and threee other places, mostly in Kunovci (<5), Velesevec in Ivanic-Grad area (<5), Zagreb (<5), Bolc in Cazma area (<5), and in Biskupci in Pozega area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gjuričić (including: Gjuricic , Giuricich ) is present in 7 countries worldwide. "Giuricich " is used by some 300 people in South Africa , about 50 in Argentina , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Juraj Gjuričić, Đurđica Gjuričić, Zdravko Gjuričić, Damian Gjuričić, Jasminka Gjuričić, Emilija Gjuričić, Josip Gjuričić, Friderika Gjuričić, Kata Gjuričić, Matej Gjuričić, Marija Gjuričić, Martin Gjuričić, Mirica Gjuričić, Želimir Gjuričić, Damir Gjuričić, Ana Gjuričić, Petar Gjuričić, Franjo Gjuričić, Emilijan Gjuričić

Mentions in sources

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

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