Surname Grgurević in modern Croatia

Grgurević families are Croats and they are mostly from Slavonski Brod area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slavonski Brod area and in Slavonski Brod. In Grgurevići in Slavonski Brod area every second inhabitant had the family name Grgurević.

Prevalence

About 590 people with faimily name Grgurević live in Croatia today, in 260 households. There were 380 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 49 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Split (70), Slavonski Brod (60), Dubrovnik (55), and in Grgurevici in Slavonski Brod area (50).

Outside Croatia

At least 16 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (8), the United States (3), Austria (3), Germany (1), and to Chile (1).
Family name Grgurević (including: Grgurevic , Grgurevich ) is present in 17 countries on four continents. The family name "Grgurevic " is used by some 100 people in Argentina , about 100 in the United States , and some 70 people in Australia. "Grgurevich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dario Grgurević, Joško Grgurević, Željko Grgurević, Oleg Grgurević, Ivan Grgurević, Marko Grgurević, Frane Grgurević, Ivica Grgurević, Lovorka Grgurević, Tripo Grgurević, Igor Grgurević, Zdravko Grgurević, Krešimir Grgurević, Jakša Grgurević, Davor Grgurević, Dubravka Grgurević, Nino Grgurević, Boris Grgurević, Đorđe Grgurević

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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