Surname Pećur in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pećur families are Croats (from Pozega area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pozega area and in Nasice area.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Pećur live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Djurdjenovac in Nasice area (<5), Jaksic in Pozega area (<5), Beljevina in Nasice area (<5), Matijevici in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (<5), and in Besinci in Pozega area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pećur (including: Pecheur , Pecur , Pechur , Pechkur and Pécheur ) is present in 25 countries worldwide. "Pechur " is used by some 70 people in Belarus , about 70 in Ukraine , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Pećur, Zoran Pećur, Tomo Pećur, Ivan Pećur, Branko Pećur, Zvonko Pećur, Jozo Pećur, Kate Pećur, Marija Pećur, Drago Pećur, Nataša Pećur, Zlatica Pećur

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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