Surname Gjurišević in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Gjurišević families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Gjurišević live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Koprivnica (<5), Hampovica in Djurdjevac area (<5), Djurdjevac (<5), and in Virje (<5) and Klostar Podravski (<5) in Djurdjevac area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Gjurišević (including: Gjurisevic , Giurissevich , Giurisevich and Giurissevic ) is present in five countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Dragutin Gjurišević, Vida Gjurišević, Silvija Gjurišević, Matija Gjurišević, Marica Gjurišević, Ivan Gjurišević, Amalija Gjurišević, Katarina Gjurišević, Josip Gjurišević, Terezija Gjurišević, Katica Gjurišević, Mato Gjurišević, Luka Gjurišević, Marija Gjurišević, Martin Gjurišević, Valentin Gjurišević, Ignac Gjurišević, Franjo Gjurišević, Mihael Gjurišević

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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