Surname Jura in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Jura families are generally Croats (from Bjelovar ), very rarely Czechs (also from Bjelovar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Jura live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, two cities and four other places, mostly in Novoseljani (10), Bjelovar (<10), Zagreb (<10), Trojstveni Markovac (<5), and in Orebic on the Peljesac peninsula (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Jura (including: Yura , Iura , Jurra , Juhra , Jurah , Juhrah , Juhera , Juera and Jhura ) is present in 58 countries worldwide. "Jurra " is used by few people in Guyana and few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mirjana Jura, Darko Jura, Dražen Jura, Saša Jura, Ivana Jura, Sandra Jura, Željko Jura, Semir Jura, Miroslav Jura, Zdenka Jura, Danijela Jura, Pavel Jura, Ivan Jura, Štefa Jura, Dragan Jura, Štefanija Jura, Ljubica Jura, Josip Jura, Terezija Jura

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1938 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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