Jurinić families are Croats and they are mostly from Jastrebarsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cakovec. In Cebovec in Zlatar area every third inhabitant had the family name Jurinić.
Prevalence
About 330 people with faimily name Jurinić live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 380 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Petrovina (30), Brezaric in Jastrebarsko area (30), Varazdin (20), and in Cebovec in Zlatar area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1691 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.