In Croatia, Jurcich families are Croats by relative majority (from Pula ), equally Italians (also from Pula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Jurcich live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Pula (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over sixty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.