Surname Jurak in modern Croatia

Jurak families are Croats and they are mostly from Klanjec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pregrada. In Mala Gora in Pregrada every tenth inhabitant had the family name Jurak.

Prevalence

About 750 people with faimily name Jurak live in Croatia today, in 320 households. There were 1000 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 23 cities and 79 other places, mostly in Zagreb (320), Pula (30), Donja Bistra in Oroslavje area (25), Sveti Ilija in Varazdin area (20), and in Varazdin (20).

Outside Croatia

Family name Jurak (including: Yurak , Jurac , Jurack , Jurach , Jurák , Yurakh , Yurack , Yurach and Iurak ) is present in 41 countries worldwide. "Jurack " is used by some 200 people in Germany , about 60 in Brazil , and some 60 people in the United States. "Yurack " is used by some 70 people in the United States. "Jurac " is used by some 100 people in Moldova , about 60 in the United States , and small number of people in Russian Federation.

Characteristic first names

Iva Jurak, Mladen Jurak, Zoran Jurak, Damir Jurak, Zdravko Jurak, Alojz Jurak, Dragan Jurak, Katarina Jurak, Vladimir Jurak, Željka Jurak, Igor Jurak, Nevenka Jurak, Krešimir Jurak, Krešo Jurak, Branko Jurak, Dubravko Jurak, Rusmir Jurak, Davor Jurak, Miljenko Jurak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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