Murk families are Croats and they are mostly from Mursko Sredisce area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Mursko Sredisce area.
Prevalence
About 130 people with faimily name Murk live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Cakovec (30), Ceminac in Beli Manastir area (15), Novakovec in Mursko Sredisce area (<10), Osijek (<10), and in Koprivnica (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.