Jurina families are Croats and they are mostly from Oroslavje area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zabok. In Dobrošin in Middle Bosnia every sixth inhabitant had the family name Jurina.
Prevalence
About 770 people with faimily name Jurina live in Croatia today, in 310 households. There were 630 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 46 cities and 78 other places, mostly in Zagreb (170), Kebel in Lepoglava area (50), Krk on the Island of Krk (35), Bedekovcina in Lepoglava area (30), and in Bapska (30).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.