Purgarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Nova Gradiska. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska and Varazdin. In Prvča in Nova Gradiska every thirtieth inhabitant had the family name Purgarić.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Purgarić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Varazdin (15), Zagreb (10), Prvca (10), Krizevci (<10), and in Kastel Sucurac (<10).
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.