Surname Jurkovac in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Jurkovac families are almost entirely Croats (from Jastrebarsko ), barely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Jastrebarsko. In Celine in Jastrebarsko every fourth inhabitant had the family name Jurkovac.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Jurkovac live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties and 6 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Jastrebarsko (10), Vukovje Zelinsko (<10), Gorica Svetojanska (<5), and in Karlovac (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (2) and Germany (1).
Family name Jurkovac is present in four countries on three continents. The family name "Jurkovac " is used by some 70 people in the United States and small number in Brazil. "Yurkovac " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivica Jurkovac, Jasmin Jurkovac, Miroslav Jurkovac, Maja Jurkovac, Martina Jurkovac, Darko Jurkovac, Željko Jurkovac, Tomislav Jurkovac, Nikola Jurkovac, Kristijan Jurkovac, Ivona Jurkovac, Zdenko Jurkovac, Branko Jurkovac, Zdenka Jurkovac, Nada Jurkovac, Krunoslav Jurkovac, Karmen Jurkovac, Stjepan Jurkovac, Krešimir Jurkovac

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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