Surname Gjurkan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Gjurkan families are Croats (from Koprivnica ).

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Gjurkan live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in only threee naselja i to in Zagreb (<5), Koprivnica (<5), and in Imbriovec in Koprivnica area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gjurkan (including: Gyurkan , Gyurcsan ) is present in 7 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Franjo Gjurkan, Cecilija Gjurkan, Tomo Gjurkan, Ivan Gjurkan, Dragutin Gjurkan, Vinko Gjurkan, Zlatko Gjurkan, Stjepan Gjurkan, Mato Gjurkan, Barica Gjurkan, Marija Gjurkan, Mijo Gjurkan, Marica Gjurkan, Karlo Gjurkan, Štefanija Gjurkan, Adolf Gjurkan, Gabor Gjurkan, Gabrijel Gjurkan, Imbro Gjurkan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1769 in source 18th Century Census.

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