Gorup families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pregrada. In Ravnica in Ozalj area every second inhabitant had the family name Gorup.
Prevalence
About 390 people with faimily name Gorup live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 430 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 46 other places, mostly in Zagreb (120), Pregrada (25), Tomasevec (20), Petrinja (15), and in Krapina (10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Gorup is present in 20 countries worldwide. The family name "Gorup " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 100 in Bangladesh , and small number of people in Canada.
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.
