Surname Juračić in modern Croatia

Juračić families are Croats and they are mostly from Opuzen area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Metkovic and in Prelog area.

Prevalence

About 240 people with faimily name Juračić live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 290 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Opuzen (30), Duboka in Opuzen area (15), Split (15), and in Dekanovec in Prelog area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (4), the United States (4), Germany (2), and to Austria (1).
Family name Juračić (including: Juracic , Juracich and Iuracich ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. The family name "Juracic " is used by some 200 people in Slovakia , about 50 in Australia , and small number of people in the United States. "Juracich " is used by some 70 people in the United States and small number in Australia.

Characteristic first names

Dražen Juračić, Davor Juračić, Mladen Juračić, Draženka Juračić, Gordana Juračić, Blaženko Juračić, Gordan Juračić, Lola Juračić, Ivan Juračić, Ana Juračić, Antun Juračić, Marko Juračić, Kristijan Juračić, Slobodan Juračić, Damir Juračić, Ljubica Juračić, Valentino Juračić, Kata Juračić, Josip Juračić

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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