Surname Kurajica in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kurajica families are Croats (from Dubrovnik area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and in Dubrovnik area. In Brotnice in Dubrovnik area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Kurajica.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Kurajica live in Croatia today, in 16 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and 6 other places, mostly in Split (<10), Dubrovnik (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Martinovici (<5) and Cavtat (<5) in Dubrovnik area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Kurajica is present in three countries.

Characteristic first names

Labud Kurajica, Stanislav Kurajica, Gojko Kurajica, Mato Kurajica, Duje Kurajica, Srđan Kurajica, Lucija Kurajica, Božo Kurajica, Bojan Kurajica, Lidija Kurajica, Cvijeta Kurajica, Nenad Kurajica, Nikola Kurajica, Dubravka Kurajica, Nikša Kurajica, Miho Kurajica, Kristo Kurajica, Tatjana Kurajica, Ilda Kurajica

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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