Surname Jug in modern Croatia

Jug families are Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava. According to some sources they are from Pregrada area (Gorjakovo, Plemenscina). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Lepoglava.

Prevalence

About 1100 people with faimily name Jug live in Croatia today, in 450 households. There were 1200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 37 cities and 132 other places, mostly in Zagreb (215), Zarovnica (45), Koprivnica (45), Benkovo (30), and in Zabok (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 20 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Switzerland (6), Germany (6), the United States (5), Spain (1), Australia (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Jug (including: Yug , Jugg , Juggi and Jugha ) is present in 40 countries worldwide. "Yug " is used by some 600 people in Uzbekistan , about 100 in Russian Federation , and small number of people in the United States. "Jugg " is used by small number of people in Great Britain and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Darinka Jug, Leona Jug, Jadranko Jug, Mario Jug, Tomislav Jug, Mladen Jug, Dragutin Jug, Matija Jug, Stjepan Jug, Gordana Jug, Davorin Jug, Zoran Jug, Valent Jug, Dubravko Jug, Rudolf Jug, Jelena Jug, Zlatko Jug, Danijel Jug, Dragan Jug

Mentions in sources

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.

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