In Croatia, Junašević families are almost entirely Croats (from Nova Gradiska ), barely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Junašević live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are only located in four Croatian cities and 5 other places, mostly in Kovacevac (15), Nova Gradiska (10), Rijeka (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Kastel Gomilica (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Junašević is present in this form only in Croatia.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.