Surname Pureta in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pureta families are almost entirely Croats (from Kutina ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Kutina and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Pureta live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled.
They are located in four Croatian counties, threee cities and another small place , mostly in Kutina (15), Zagreb (<10), Osijek (<5), and in Kostrena Sveta Lucija in Bakr area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pureta is present in 8 countries on four continents. "Purretta " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Argentina.

Characteristic first names

Tanja Pureta, Igor Pureta, Mirjana Pureta, Maja Pureta, Sofija Pureta, Denis Pureta, Marko Pureta, Kristina Pureta, Branko Pureta, Petar Pureta, Živko Pureta, Đurđica Pureta, Ines Pureta, Milan Pureta, Ljuba Pureta, Ika Pureta, Stevka Pureta, Ana Pureta, Slavko Pureta

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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