Surname Purić in modern Croatia

Purić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Prelog area and in Zupanja area. In Žgaljići on the Island of Krk every third inhabitant had the family name Purić.

Prevalence

About 510 people with faimily name Purić live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 490 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 43 cities and 64 other places, mostly in Zagreb (70), Vrbanja in Zupanja area (45), Donji Kraljevec in Prelog area (35), Samobor (25), and in Rijeka (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 25 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (11), Germany (8), Switzerland (2), Australia (2), Canada (1), and to France (1).
Family name Purić (including: Purich , Puric , Purici , Purych , Puriche , Purick , Purichi and Puricz ) is present in 31 countries worldwide. The family name "Puric " is used by some 60 people in Russian Federation , about 60 in the United States , and small number of people in Italy. "Purich " is used by some 200 people in Ukraine , about 90 in the United States , and some 60 people in Canada. "Puricz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Purić, Bojan Purić, Ivan Purić, Darko Purić, Ljubica Purić, Zlata Purić, Mirko Purić, Marijana Purić, Dražen Purić, Igor Purić, Mirela Purić, Ranko Purić, Elvir Purić, Adriana Purić, Bariša Purić, Ernest Purić, Dinko Purić, Bože Purić, Vesna Purić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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