Surname Gregurić in modern Croatia

Gregurić families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. According to some sources they are from Perusic. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zabok. In Dubrava Zabočka in Zabok every seventh inhabitant had the family name Gregurić.

Prevalence

About 1200 people with faimily name Gregurić live in Croatia today, in 510 households. There were 1500 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 49 cities and 157 other places, mostly in Zagreb (260), Dubrava Zabocka (80), Strucljevo in Zabok area (40), Glina (35), and in Varazdin (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 14 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (4), France (4), the United States (2), Australia (2), Switzerland (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Gregurić (including: Gregurich , Greguric and Gregurick ) is present in 15 countries on four continents. The family name "Greguric " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Hungary. "Gregurich " is used by some 300 people in the United States. "Gregurick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Franjo Gregurić, Sanja Gregurić, Manuela Gregurić, Jakša Gregurić, Mladen Gregurić, Marko Gregurić, Zoran Gregurić, Aleksandar Gregurić, Ivo Gregurić, Melita Gregurić, Zlatko Gregurić, Milivoj Gregurić, Aleksandra Gregurić, Ivica Gregurić, Jelena Gregurić, Damir Gregurić, Magdalena Gregurić, Milan Gregurić, Željko Gregurić

Mentions in sources

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

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