Surname Kukurić in modern Croatia

Kukurić families are Croats and they are mostly from Sisak. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and in Ivanic-Grad. In Gušće in Sisak every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Kukurić.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Kukurić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and 8 other places, mostly in Gusce (30), Sisak (20), Hrastelnica (15), Veliko Svinjicko (10), and in Zagreb (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kukurić (including: Kukuric , Kukurich ) is present in 6 countries on two continents. "Kukurich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ankica Kukurić, Damir Kukurić, Natalija Kukurić, Stjepan Kukurić, Ivica Kukurić, Marina Kukurić, Mihaela Kukurić, Franjo Kukurić, Kristina Kukurić, Željka Kukurić, Josipa Kukurić, Davorka Kukurić, Ivan Kukurić, Darko Kukurić, Diana Kukurić, Filip Kukurić, Matija Kukurić, Dragan Kukurić, Rado Kukurić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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