Jurakić families are Croats and they are mostly from middle Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Derventa area) and in Middle Bosnia (Skender Vakuf area).
Prevalence
About 400 people with faimily name Jurakić live in Croatia today, in 130 households. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 29 other places, mostly in Zagreb (130), Slavonski Brod (95), Sesvete (55), Dugo Selo (15), and in Cerna in Zupanja area (15).
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.