In Croatia, Kurir families are Croats (from Split ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Kurir live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Split (10) and Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.